1. Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross. She would later adopt the name "Harriet" after her mother: Harriet Ross. The surname Tubman comes from her first husband, John Tubman, who she married in ...

Before she chose Harriet as her “freedom name,” and before she became the mysterious liberator known to slaves and their masters as Moses, Tubman is called Minty Ross (short for Araminta).Like ...

Harriet Tubman is Fields-Black’s central character. The Black feminist icon never wrote about the Combahee River raid, or about her life for that matter, but her courageous actions in 1863 have ...

Harriet Tubman has been known by her many names and roles—Araminta Ross (her birth name), Moses (a nickname), conductor, daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt. All encompass the intersecting identities ...