Harriet Tubman is the most popular of all the Underground Railroad conductors. He saved many African American men and women, including his parents, through his loving and kind heart. Harriet Tubman, born Aramintra Ross, was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, to her slave parents Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. Throughout her childhood she was labeled as one of those Ashanti. She is said to have been born between 1820 and 1825. Although no evidence remains, family tradition says she was one of eleven children. Like most enslaved spouses, her parents struggled to live close to each other so they could have a more stable family life (Ibid). Tubman was sold as a child to work for many white employers outside of the family her mother worked for. During her childhood she was briefly trained as a weaver and soon after the weaver's husband hired her. Shortly thereafter she was sold and became a maid or nurse to many nearby families. Harriet remembers that she was very young and quite small when she was assigned the task of caring for Miss Susan's baby. His workday practically never ended. She was required to stay awake to cradle a sick baby. Tubman's lover slept every night with a whip under the pillow and if the child screamed even slightly, Tubman was hit in the neck and face. Harriet's life was full of tribulations. Physical harm was part of his daily life. Harriet suffered permanent physical injuries as a result of the violence. One clear memory she had was of being whipped before breakfast one day. In 1939 Harkless Bowley, her nephew recalled that Harriet had told him that she had been beaten disgracefully. Tubman had a knot in her side because an embittered man hit her with a rope that contained a knot tied to…half the paper…and sent her back into slavery. This also led to the capture of former slaves and free African Americans living in the free states. In fact, Tubman took the Underground Railroad on a different route to Canada. Slavery was completely prohibited there. His most memorable rescue was his success in saving his parents. As Tubman led 11 fugitives north, there is evidence that they stopped at the home of Frederick Douglass. Tubman not only led slaves on the Underground Railroad, but she was also an activist during the Civil War. She was a cook and nurse for the Union Army. Tubman was never given funding to be a Union nurse, which greatly irritated her. Military pay has been an issue since the beginning. Shortly after becoming a union nurse, she became an armed scout and spy. As the first woman to lead an armed expedition, she led the Combahee River Raid.