Harriet Tubman's Life And Slavery: Similarities And Differences

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After reading two essays about Harriet Tubman’s life and slavery, there were many things to compare. The essay “The Women Called Moses” by Walter Oleksy and Meg Milms and “Leader of The Civil War Era: Harriet Tubman” by Ann Malaspina, have many similarities and differences.

The story revolves around the life of Harriet Tubman and her days of slavery. The main similarity is how they both talk about the life of people in slavery and how badly they would try to escape. The main difference is the first story just tells about a life of an enslaved slave. The second story tells about a slave’s life after he or she escapes.

The life of an enslaved slave was terrible. The first story tells how her and her family used to sleep in a one room cabin

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