Harriet was born on a plantation. Kind of in between 1820 and 1821. The southern part of the United States had slavery. She has two sisters I think. Her father, mother, and sisters or brothers were all slaves. Harriet was one of eleven children slaves. Her real name was Rosa but she was named after her mother.
She led three hundred slaves to freedom. If one of them would turn back she would point a gun at their face. She used songs as codes.
She married John who was a free black man. But she asked him to go with her to the Northern states but he refused. So she went alone. In 1864 something bad happened and her husband died. Then she married Nelson, another free man. Then he died in 1888 a few years later. She hated slavery very much.
She was the nurse for the Northern army and a spy . And even through the Northern army she led slaves to freedom. She led the underground railroad.
She died because she was old. She died when she was ninety seven years old. And died the year of 1913 in Auburn Maryland.
When Harriet Tubman was little she was one of eleven kid slaves. Her home was really little. It only had one room. One time she came between a runaway slave and master. And he threw a metal weight at her head and almost killed her. But instead it left a big scar on her forehead.
Abe was born in Febuary 12,1809 in Kentucky. When he was growing up he helped his dad cut lots of logs. His favorite subject was arithimatic. His mother and baby sister died when he was nine, Sarah tried to take her place. Abe`s dad went away for a little while and Sarah took good care of Abe and the house. His dad came back and Sarah and Abe a widow in back of the dad. Her name was Sarah but her family called her Sally. Sarah had three children.
When he grew older he became a mailmaster. When he got older he became a Lawyer. Then he saw Mary Todd. They waited for three years before they got married. Mary Todd thought he would be a president. One day Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abe.Then Abe wrote a letter back.The letter said that Abe should grow a beard because he would look good.
Then he became a president. Mary Todd was so happy. Then after that he went home to see his family.
He ended slavery and gave famous speeches.
One day Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln went to the Fords Theater and a guy in the show that wanted slavery, he jumped off the stage and he went in back of Abraham and he had a gun and shot him in the head then he jumped on the stage and he broke his leg, but he still got away. Then he got captured. People brought Abraham to a nearby farm. There were five doctors there. It was April 15th1865 when he died. He died in Washington D.C. Mary Todd Lincoln was sad.
Thomas Edison was born February 11 1847, he died October 18 1931 . His mother taught him he was always thankful for his education. My favorite invention of Edison's is the light bulb and the phonograph. He knew Alexander Graham Bell who was the man who invented the telephone in 1876. He once used a dictionary for a pillow. He almost died from scarlet fever. Tom was the first to ever say something in the phonograph, it worked. Once a young lady saw the phonograph worked she fainted!!! Before I knew the phonograph was Edison's favorite invention I thought it was the light bulb. The Western Union assigned him to make a better working telephone he found the problem and fixed it . This is what Edison said into the phonograph '' Mary had a little lamb its flees was white as snow every where that Mary went the lamb was sure to go". The inventor inventing.
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