Get to know hero of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman in this middle grade nonfiction biography of her early years Harriet Tubman was born into slavery. As young as age twelve, she resisted the abuses of the white families she was forced to work for, defending a man who tried to escape from a violent slaveowner who struck her in the head hard enough to have lasting impacts on her health. After Harriet's own escape from slavery,...