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About Araminta Ross
Harriet Tubman’s birth name was Araminta Harriet Ross. She married John Tubman in 1844 and changed her name to Harriet Tubman. ARLC has adopted the “maiden name” of Harriet Tubman to celebrate the change from a former enslaved woman on a plantation in Dorchester, Maryland (1822) to a “self-liberated” American in 1849.
Araminta Harriet Ross (aka Harriet Tubman) began the first of 19 trips leading former slaves to freedom in 1850. In addition to “conducting” approximately 300 people from the South to Canada, Tubman also enlisted in the Union Army in 1861. Tubman served as a laundress, a nurse and a spy for the Union Army. She partnered with Colonel James Montgomery and the Second South Carolina Volunteers (a Black regiment). Tubman assumed leadership of a secret military mission that included 8 scouts, mapped the area and sent word to enslaved people when raids would take place in South Carolina’s low country.
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