who was harriet tubman married to?
In 1844 or 1845, Harriet married John Tubman, a free black. The marriage was apparently not a good match, from the beginning. Shortly after her marriage, she hired a lawyer to investigate her own legal history, and discovered that her mother had been freed on a technicality upon the death of a former owner.
After the war, Harriet returned home to Auburn. In 1869, she married Nelson Davis and together they shared a calm, peaceful 19 year marriage until he died. The quote below, echoing Patrick Henry, is the Sarah Bradford biography, The Moses of Her People, of Harriet Tubman: Harriet was now left alone, . . .