Fun+Facts

//**Fun Facts﻿**//
 * **Harriet Tubman was nicknamed Moses because she brought so many of her people out of bondage in the South to the "Promised Land" of the North.**
 * **During the Civil War, Harriet served as a nurse, cook, scout, and sometimes spy. She is said to have participated in a military campaign that freed 756 slaves and destroyed millions of dollars in property belonging to the south.**
 * **She made a medicine out of water lilies and geraniums that cured an illness called dysentery that killed many soldiers during the war.**
 * **After the Civil War, she worked in the women's suffrage movement and in the temperence movement.**
 * **She had a $40,000.00 bounty on her head at one time.**
 * **In 1908 she founded a home for elderly, poor, and homeless African-Americans in Auburn, New York that later became known as the Harriet Tubman Home.**
 * **Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross and later changed her name to Harriet after her mother. She married a free Black man named John Tubman and took his last name.**
 * **Opened African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Auburn, New York.**
 * **Helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harper's Ferry during the Civil War.**
 * **First woman to lead an armed expedition in the Civil War.**
 * **She lived during the same time period as Helen Keller.**
 * **Her tombstone reads, "Servant of God, Well Done"**