A Look at the love life of Harriet Tubman

Black History Month intertwined with Love 🖤

                                  

                                    

I have been thinking a lot about the history of women who made hugely important sacrifices for black people enslaved.  Love is on the brain, how could it not be during February.  Everywhere you look there are images of couples in love, sexy lingerie, plus hearts and flowers.  Here, I take a look at the soft side of Harriet Tubman.  You know the side all of us women possess? The side where our hearts flutter and we can't live without that certain someone.

🖤 I can imagine that is what Harriet felt when she met her first husband a free man named John Tubman. The two Wedded under an informal agreement rather than a legally bound union and stayed married from 1844-to 1851.

🖤 Similar to love relationships today, when Harriet began to evolve and became determined to gain her own freedom in the North the marriage suffered. Mrs. Tubman made several trips back and forth freeing herself, her sister, and her two children followed by her brother and two other men.

💔🕳 Harriet's third trip was to come back to her husband John.  I can almost feel her broken heart when she found John had moved on and taken a new woman as his wife.  How dare he!  Perhaps he could not handle a strong-willed wife? htpp://www.pilotonline.com

                                

Not to worry, Harriet was going to find love again in 1869, with a younger man. Yes! You heard it, her new lover was 22 years her junior. I too married a younger man, I suppose Harriet was so beautiful and full of life; a younger man was well suited for her.  I love this thought.  Why not? Men marry much younger women every day.  Nelson Davis was Harriet's second husband and was a War Veteran.  Five years after they married a daughter, Gertie was adopted by the couple.  They settled into living in New York. https://www.history.com

                                 

The picture above is of Harriet's home in New York.  Her first home was burned down, but her husband, Nelson rebuilt a dwelling for her with bricks.

Fun fact: Harriet could not read nor write but was a brilliant woman.  She obtained 32acres of land where she built an estate that included apple orchards, a pig farm, a home for the aged, and a hospital.

Sad Fact: When Harriet was a teenager, a slave owner hit her over the head with a hard object after she was caught helping another slave attempt to escape.  This caused Harriet to have seizures and headaches for the rest of her life.

Courage Fact:  Harriet was born with the name Arminta Ross, aka Minty Ross. After she escaped and found freedom she picked the name Harriet for herself.  Harriet was her mother's name.

                                   

Harriet Tubman wanted the greatest gifts of all, Love and Freedom.  She accomplished both.  At least I imagine so.

Xo, thesmalltownmomblog_vplusgrace