what jobs did harriet tubman have?
Writer
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 As a child , Tubman also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook . She had to check the muskrat traps in nearby marshes , even after contracting measles . She became so ill that Cook sent her back to Brodess , where her mother nursed her back to health . Brodess then hired her out again . She spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness , comparing herself to " the boy on the Swanee River " , an allusion to Stephen Foster 's song " Old Folks at Home " . As she grew older and stronger , she was assigned to field and forest work , driving oxen , plowing , and hauling logs . 

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 At the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries , Carson 's main responsibilities were to analyze and report field data on fish populations , and to write brochures and other literature for the public . Using her research and consultations with marine biologists as starting points , she also wrote a steady stream of articles for The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers . However , her family responsibilities further increased in January 1937 when her older sister died , leaving Carson as the sole breadwinner for her mother and two nieces . 

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 Short of food and money , Manning spent long hours writing after work . Miles took Manning under his wing , dazzling her with dinners , literary conversation and gossip , and providing unaccustomed support . A married man with two children , he told Manning that his wife was an invalid and no longer able to tolerate sex ; they soon became lovers . Manning later recalled that " sex for both of them was the motivating charm of life . " 

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 During her years in Minneapolis , Hickok lived with a society reporter named Ella Morse , with whom she had a six @-@ year relationship . In 1926 , Hickok was diagnosed with diabetes , and Morse persuaded her take a year 's leave from the newspaper so the pair could travel to San Francisco and Hickok could write a novel . At the beginning of the leave , however , Morse unexpectedly eloped with an ex @-@ boyfriend , leaving Hickok devastated . Unable to face a return to Minneapolis , Hickok moved to New York , landing a job with the New York Daily Mirror . 

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 No international copyright laws existed at the time . The book and plays were translated into several languages ; Stowe received no money , which could have meant as much as " three fourths of her just and legitimate wages . " 
