1793: Richard, 27, moves to Georgia to work as a merchant.

March 21, 1794: Emily Harvie Thomas is born in Ashland, Va.

1797: Tubman buys his first Augusta property, land between Broad and Ellis streets.

Dec. 2, 1802: Tubman and his brother Charles buy land in Columbia County.

1803: Emily's father dies. She becomes the ward of Henry Clay of Kentucky, future president of the American Colonization Society.

Fall 1818: Emily comes from Kentucky to Augusta to visit the Ware family and meets Richard.

June 30, 1819: Richard and Emily are married at the Wares' summer residence on the Hill. (Wedding date differs in historical texts, but June 30 is mentioned most often).

1820: President James Monroe appropriates funds for the first American settlement of free blacks in Africa. The American Colonization Society's settlement, Monrovia, is later named for him.

November 1831: The schooner Orion carries the first group of freed slaves from Baltimore to the Maryland State Colonization Society's settlement at Cape Palmas in Liberia, a colony on the coast of west Africa.

July 1, 1833: Richard Tubman files his will requesting that his slaves be emancipated after his death.

July 11, 1836: Tubman dies in North Carolina.

Nov. 25, 1836: Emily's petition to allow the Tubman slaves to live free in Georgia is delivered to the Statehouse in Milledgeville.

Dec. 8, 1836: The committee on petitions rejects the request.

April 18, 1837: Emily accepts the offer of the Maryland State Colonization Society to arrange for her slaves to be transported to and settled at Cape Palmas.

May 4, 1837: The Tubman group leaves Augusta by train for Charleston, S.C.

May 9, 1837: The group arrives in Baltimore.

May 17, 1837: The Tubman group sets sail for Liberia aboard the brig Baltimore.

July 4, 1837: Settlers arrive at Cape Palmas.

January 1838: Two adults and two or three children have died since the settlers' arrival. Just seven Tubman families have houses, but farming has begun near Mount Tubman. An agent of the colonization society publicly praises the Tubman settlers' industriousness.

1842: Cyrus Tubman travels back to Baltimore but can't visit Augusta because he is refused entry by Southern ports.

July 26, 1847: The main Liberian colony, centered on the capital city of Monrovia, declares its independence and nationhood.

1857: The Maryland settlement where the Tubman people live joins the country of Liberia.

June 9, 1885: Emily Tubman dies at 91.

Sept. 22, 1862: President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation declaring slaves in all territory still at war with the Union to be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.