Harriet Tubman And Underground Railroad

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"Oppressed slaves should flee and take Liberty Line to freedom." The Underground Railroad began in the 1780s while Harriet Tubman was born six decades later in antebellum America. The Underground Railroad was successful in its quest to free slaves; it even made the South pass two acts in a vain attempt to stop its tracks. Then, Harriet Tubman, an African-American with an incredulous conviction to lead her people to the light, joins the Underground Railroad’s cause becoming one of the leading conductors in the railroad. The Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman aided in bringing down slavery and together, they put the wood in the fires leading up to the Civil War. The greatest causes of the Civil War were the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman due conflict and mistrust over slavery they created between the North and South. In the 1780s, the Quaker formed what is now known as the Underground Railroad or Liberty Line. The Liberty Line was a vast network of anti-slavery Northerners. It was comprised of free African-Americans and Caucasians in favor of abolition. The escapees (mostly upper South slaves whom were young males without families) traveled at night while using the North Star for guidance. Generally, the runaway slaves were on the lookout for farms where they could receive help or vigilance committees where anti-slavery towns and sympathetic free blacks could hide them. Whenever an opportunity came up, a conductor would meet the runaways to help them to Canada. They often used lake ports as terminals to safely and quickly transport slaves to Canada. The Underground Railroad was highly successful; it had lent a hand to some 60,000 slaves. As Henry David Thoreau said, “The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is ow... ... middle of paper ... ...Moses of her people and a hefty $40,000 bounty. Tubman had never run her “… train off the track…” and she had”…never lost a passenger.” Based on the bounty, it is possible to infer that the South was remarkably threatened by her actions. Tubman was an escaped slave freeing slaves-an omen foreshadowing events to come for the South. Tubman couldn’t be caught or stopped. The Moses of her people drove the South on the edge of seceding from the union as the Southerners became closer to realizing that they were an entirely different entity from the North. The Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman made the opposing North and South fight and distrust one another over slavery which made them the greatest causes of the Civil War. Due their actions, the nation was cut in half over the fighting over slavery by the South seceding from the Union; thus, beginning the Civil War.

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