Harriet Tubman was born in 1820, in Maryland. She had been through a lot in her life. During her early years as a child in slavery, she suffered more than an average person in their entire lifetime. As an adult, she risked her life almost every day to save others and after she died, she has received many awards, including her beating Andrew Jackson to be the face of the $20 bill. Her time in slavery gave her the determination and inspiration to be one of the conductors on the Underground Railroad and being a famed abolitionist, not to mention her recognition and tales told about her after she died. But what led Harriet Tubman to be such an influential figure in US history? Harriet Tubman was born a slave, where she had experienced …show more content…
At the time, that was the scariest thing anyone could even think about. But if she had never had to put up with all of that torture, and never had the strength and determination to escape and save others, slavery might still exist to this day. Harriet and her brothers escaped but her brothers got really nervous and started feeling too guilty and scared, so they decided to turn back. Harriet had to return with them or else her owner would know she was missing after her brothers were there and she wasn’t. She didn’t want to risk them coming after her and killing her because then she wouldn’t be able to save other slaves, so she went back. A couple years later, she decided to escape again to the free state of Philadelphia. To get there, she went on the underground railroad and traveled 90 miles. After she was free, she started feeling guilty for being selfish, even though nobody expected her to save others, for only saving herself so decided to return to Maryland to help save other slaves. At the same time, there was a law made saying that free slaves could not help other slaves escape. This was called the fugitive slave act but she went anyway and made 13 trips on the underground railroad until all of her family and friends were safe and sound in Philadelphia. The north started becoming dangerous for slaves, too, so when a …show more content…
She was an abolitionist who guided many, many, many slaves to their freedom, and she was very important during the Civil War as a nurse. Harriet married a man named John Tubman, who was a free black. John didn’t support her wanting to escape to Philadelphia so she went alone. When Harriet came back to rescue him, she had discovered that he had already remarried. A little while after that, she married a man named Nelson Davis and they adopted a little girl named Gertie. As Harriet got older, her head injury got worse and she just became sicker and sicker. She died of pneumonia in 1913 when she was 93 years old. After she died, The U.S. postal service issued a stamp in her honor and her gravestone is listed on the national register of historic places. Yes, to someone who only knew about the awards and recognition she received, and had no idea what her childhood was like, she sounds like someone who had an amazing life, great education, and was overall a privileged person. But as you can see, that is not the case. It is astonishing how Harriet Tubman was able to put up with all of that torture from her childhood, and still do great things. Her childhood was horrible, but if all of those things never happened, she never would have had the strength and determination risk her life everyday, causing her to be one of the most famed people in US
Overall, Harriet Tubman was a great and inspiring person in American History. The unique happenstance
The Civil War lasted for four years, three weeks, and six days. The Civil War caused a numerous amount of good and bad things. Along with the union coming out victorious, slavery was abolished, territorial integrity was gained, the reconstruction era began, and Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Although, many people were involved in the process leading up to the civil war. Abolitionists played a huge role in the progression in civil rights. They fought for the freedom of slaves and the ceasing of slave trade from Africa. There were many activists involved in this movement, including Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. These two women abolitionists are two of the most dynamic woman and well known abolitionists. Although Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth have many similarities, they have certain aspects that allow them to differ from each other. Despite their slight differences, Tubman and Truth were seemingly the most efficient and effective in their duties as abolitionists.
Harriet Ross Tubman was an African American who escaped slavery and then showed runaway slaves the way to freedom in the North for longer than a decade before the American Civil War. During the war she was as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that she kept working for rights for blacks and women.
In the earliest part of Harriet?s life the whole idea of slavery was foreign to her. As all little girls she was born with a mind that only told her place in the world was that of a little girl. She had no capacity to understand the hardships that she inherited. She explains how her, ?heart was as free from care as that of any free-born white child.?(Jacobs p. 7) She explains this blissful ignorance by not understanding that she was condemned at birth to a life of the worst kind oppression. Even at six when she first became familiar with the realization that people regarded her as a slave, Harriet could not conceptualize the weight of what this meant. She say?s that her circumstances as slave girl were unusua...
Harriet was never considered a good slave. After her head injury, a neighbor wanted to hire her as a nurse-girl, and her owner was more than willing to let her go. (Taylor 8). Harriet was required to “do all the housework, milk the cows, as well as to be at the side of the cradle every time the little darling cried.” (Taylor 8). Because she wasn't able to be at all places at all times, she was beaten and sent back to her owner with the recommendation, “She don’t worth the salt that seasons her grub.” (Taylor 8). Once Harriet was returned, her owner greeted her with “I will break you in!” (Taylor 8). “From early morn till late at night she was made to work, beaten and cuffed upon the slightest provocation.” (Taylor 8).
Harriet Tubman was born in the year 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her parents were Harriet Green and Ben Ross. She is known by the name Harriet Tubman, but her real name was Araminta Ross. She had ten brothers and sisters who helped her with her work. Her family's nickname for her, as said by Elish, was “Minta” (9). She was born into a slave family which meant one thing: she was going to have a difficult life. She was abused and beaten by hard-hearted white people even when she was little. Her most difficult injury to overcome happened when she was only thirteen. A slave started to escape, so her master picked up a brick and threw it at him. Harriet stepped in front of the brick, trying to give the slave a chance to escape, and, in doing so, was hit in the head, knocking her out. Because of this injury, she had seizures and extremely painful headaches her entire life. When she was old enough, she was rented out to the Cook family. They disregarded her as a person or as an equal, making her sleep and share food with the dogs. The Cooks did not have enough money to keep her, so they gave her back. She was then rented to a woman named Miss Susan, who beat her mercilessly with a whip over the tiniest mistake. When she got the chance, she ran away from her, but ended up almost starving. She was returned to the plantation and started to work in the fields, gathering strength. Her father, hearing about her almost ...
Numerous are mindful of the considerable deed that Harriet Tubman executed to free slaves in the south. Then again, individuals are still left considerably unaware about in which the way they were safeguarded and how she triumphed each and every deterrent while placing her life at risk of being captured. She is deserving of the great honor she has garnered by todays general society and you will find out her in the biography. The title of this biography is “Harriet Tubman, the Road to Freedom.” The author of this piece is Catherine Clinton. ”Harriet Tubman, the road to Freedom” is a charming, instructive, and captivating book that history appreciates and is a memoir than readers will cherish. The Target audience of the biography is any readers
Harriet Tubman’s work as part of the Underground Railroad was ended by the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. However, her determined opposition and resistance to slavery did not end there. She assisted the Union throughout the war in a variety of roles. Her practice of partaking in the Underground Railroad meant that she had an understanding and ability to take part in secretive missions and this, in combination with her devotion to helping other people, made her a useful resource for the Union army
The first contribution of Harriet Tubman is that she served as a spy for the union army, because she wanted freedom for all the people who were forced into slavery not just the people she could help by herself. One day Tubman took one of the most dangerous and dramatic roles she helped Colonel James Montgomery plan to free slaves from a plantation along the Combahee River in South Carolina. They helped seven hundred and fifty Negroes into the free lines. The river is now known as the “Jordan River” it is the symbol of bondage and freedom. It is also a sign of significance of the military in America...
Harriet Tubman was a selfless woman, who devoted her life to save others. Many other slaves from the South escaped to freedom in the North like Tubman. Many of these people stayed where they were free, frightened to go anywhere near the South again. However, that was not Tubman, she was different. She wanted everyone to have the feeling of freedom that she had newly discovered. Harriet was known “to bring people of her race from bondage to liberty,” (S Bradford et al 1869). Harriet Tubman was known as a hero to lots of people during the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman's life is one for the records with so much history and importance behind it. In 1849 she escaped from slavery and settled in Philadelphia. There, she found work as a scrubwoman. Over the next ten years she became very involved in the Abolition movement, forming friendships with one of the black leaders of the Underground Railroad, William Still, and white abolitionist Thomas Garrett. She became an inspiring conductor of the Underground Railroad putting her own life ahead of her people. Her drudgery did not stop there. During the Civil War Harriet Tubman served as a scout, a spy, and a nurse. Because of her influential involvement in the abolitionist act she came into contact with many dominant social leaders in the North. While all of her accomplishments were notable, her involvement in the Underground Railroad is one most infamous to the United States.
Conducting the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievement for the following reasons.Harriet was taking the biggest risk helping others.This was a big risk she was taking because if they got caught they could all be sold back into slavery.They had to walk until they reach Canada to be safe.There were many different routes they took to escape.They had to walk miles and miles to escape.Harriet lead many slaves to freedom.She helped many of her people escape.She wanted them all to have the right of freedom.Harriet Tubman’s life is important to study because she constantly was doing good work with no benefits.She would always put her life at risk helping
...ark. It is her life that should be remembered, the women that had the courage to escape from a life she did not want and the selflessness to return to bequeath the same gift on others that were not as fortunate as her. Tubman knew that although she could achieve freedom in a legal sense, she herself would not feel free unless she had someone to share it with. After escaping from the South, Tubman stated "I was free, but there was no one to welcome me to freedom.... I was a stranger in a strange land." Many slaves had the courage to journey north on the Underground Railroad, however, few slaves had the courage to free themselves, and then plummet themselves back into danger. It is not the action of freeing slaves that Harriet Tubman should be remember for, but rather her fighting spirit and unwillingness to give up until she felt that what was wrong was set right.
Many people do not know what Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievement was. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland around 1822. When she was born she was first named Araminta Ross and was like every other African-American, born into slavery. In 1844 Araminta married a free black man named John Tubman and later changed her name to Harriet Tubman, her first name from her mother and her last name from her husband. Five years later Harriet’s master died which gave Harriet a decision, she could be free or dead. Harriet decided to run, this decision had led herself down a dangerous path. However, Harriet had chosen to help other slaves, by doing so she had accomplished various achievements, but which one was her greatest? During Harriet’s lifetime, she had worked as a nurse, she had created the underground railroad, and had worked as a spy freeing many slaves.
She was an ex-slave herself and was born into a family of slave parents. She was born in Maryland, on the eastern shore. Harriet unfortunately grew up unable to read or write since slaves were not taught nor allowed to do so. So one day in 1849 Tubman made plans to escape. Her plan was to follow the stars and she only knew of a couple southern states in her path. Once she made it to Philadelphia she found work and saved money. When you escape your journey take a long time known can easily pan out how the trip will go. So runaways had to be smart they could not travel main roads because the hunters patrolled them. The railroad stretched for thousands of miles and took a long time to get there. They had to take the hard and forbidden routes like in the mountains and swamps. And while you are trying to escape your owner puts a reward on whoever can capture you. For Harriet her price was forty thousand dollars. But no one got her. She was a huge help in saving slaves lives and guiding them to freedom. I think that’s why she was worth so much. But she survived it all and made over twenty trips over the south and saved more than three hundred slaves escape. As time passed she worked as a cook, nurse, and spy for the civil war. Then later she settled down in New York until her death in