Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a very interesting women. Harriet Tubman, was born as Araminta Ross in 1819 or 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Araminta Tubman had changed her name to Harriet after her mother, and Ross of course was after her father. Harriet was born into slavery. There were eight children in her family and she was the sixth. Her mother died when she was only five years old. The first person that owned her wasn't as mean to her as other slave owners were at this time, But sadly this man died. The man's sons decided to put Harriet up on the slave market, along with her brothers, and sisters. They were all afraid that they would be seperated. Sadly enough, they were.
Now that Harriet belonged to someone else, she had to deal with being whipped as this person was mean to her. At the age of twelve, Harriet saw a girl being whipped repeatedly. She felt bad for the girl. She ran to help the girl. When Harriet got there and tried to help her, But she was seriously injured as she took a blow to the head. For the rest of her life, she would sometimes experience blackouts. She was caused Trauma. One day, when Harriet was in the woods, she saw a man who looked familiar. It was her father. She was so happy to see him again. She had seen him a few more times after this event, But then, He died. At the age of 25 Harriet got married to free slave, John Tubman. Five years later, with the fear that she would be sold again, and that her family would get seperated, sh...
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... a bruising fight, to ride in a baggage car on her return to Auburn.
Harriet was a fighter for women's rights as well. With her home literally down the road, Tubman remained in contact with her friends, William and Frances Seward. In 1908, She built a wooden structure that served as a home for the old and indigent. Here, she worked, and was cared for herself, before her death. Harriet died in 1913. Harriet Tubman was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, with Military Honors.
In my opinion, I think that Harriet Tubman truly was a hero. She was able to rescue so many people from slavery, Serve in the war, and still even in old age build a home for old and indigent. Harriet Tubman is a great role model. I'm glad i did my report on her.
We know her as the “Moses” of her people; she left a remarkable history on the tracks of the Underground Railroad that will never be forgotten. Harriet Tubman born into slavery around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, Harriet Tubman was a nurse, spy, social reformer and a feminist during a period of economic upheaval in the United States. For people to understand the life of Harriet Tubman, they should know about her background, her life as a slave, and as a free woman.
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.
Harriet Tubman Who is a great female hero from the 1800s? Who freed herself from slavery? Who freed other people from slavery? Not Wonder Woman, but Harriet Tubman. As you will see Harriet Tubman is a hero as seen through her personal background and lifetime accomplishments.
“I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.” (History.com) This Harriet Tubman quote is a great representation of the kind of person she was. Harriet Tubman was a great woman, not only did she escape slavery; she went back several times to save more people. She conducted the Underground Railroad and did great things that have changed our history in one of its darkest times in our history. Being a slave was not easy but that didn’t stop her.
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).
One of the things that Harriet Tubman did to overcome slavery was by escaping persecution. Escaping slavery was always on Harriet's mind ever since she was just a young child. Harriet was born straight into bondage when she was born in 1825. Majority of Harriet's family were involved in slavery. Her mother was sent from Africa on a slave ship to America to be a slave. Harriet, whose real name was Rit, began working in hard as a house servant when she was just five. Two years later Harriet knew that she had to escape from her hard life as a slave. When Harriet was seven she ran away from her homeowner to freedom alone. It was not until a short time later that she realized that she could not make it living on her own just being seven years old. She soon ret...
Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland in 1820. She was a house servant at ages five through six and became a field worker at age seven. She received an injury while protecting another slave from an angry overseer and was hit in the head. She would fall into deep sleep randomly for the rest of her life. She married John Tubman in 1844 who was also a free black man.
I believe that Harriet Tubman is a great hero. Here on the plantation, we don’t really hear about much, but we knew of the great Moses. Being a slave in the South, escaping seemed like nothing but a farfetched dream, but Moses gives people like me hope. Mom would always tell us famous quotes that Harriet would use to encourage slaves, things like “We got to go free or die, and freedom’s not bought with dust.” That quote always proved to me how determined Harriet was to bring fugitives up North. No matter the cost, she would go back and forth between the deepest of Southern slave states all the way to the North just to lead people to the safety and freedom they should’ve received when they were born. Harriet risked her life everyday to bring
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 was born into slavery in Maryland around 1820. By the time Tubman had reached the age of 5 or 6, she started working as a servant in her master’s household. Approximately seven years after she began working as a servant, Tubman was sent to work out in the fields. While Tubman was still a teenager, she sustained an injury that would affect her for the rest of her life. One day, Tubman stood up for another slave and blocked a doorway in order to protect them from an upset overseer. The overseer threw a weight at one of the field hands, missing them and instead hitting Tubman on the head. Tubman was never able to fully heal from the wound she sustained from the overseer. This injury caused a chroni...
In Pennsylvania, Harriet Tubman became an abolitionist. She worked to end slavery. She decided to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad (a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the South). On her first trip in 1850, Harriet Tubman brought her sister and her sister's two children out of slavery in Maryland. In 1851 she rescued her brother, and in 1857 Harriet Tubman returned to Maryland and brought her parents to freedom.
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 ...
She was well respected among the army and was thought of as the best woman for the job. She was tasked with several mission trips where that required her to liberate multiple slaves. Prior to the war Harriet Tubman returned to Auburn, New York where she spoke at ladies’ suffrage gatherings. Other great women in American history were also present at these meetings. For example. Susan B. Anthony was a speaker at several of these suffrage meetings. Youthful Harriet Tubman was harmed when master tasked with her long errands that were suited for someone ways past her age and ability. The flashback of her two sisters being taken away from her and sold off in a slave trade remained in Harriet Tubman’s mind for the rest of her life. As an adolescent, Harriet Tubman had a hardship brought upon her. She was accidently struck with a 20 pound weight tossed by her furious master on her forehead. This event caused her to suffer a serious recuperation as she lived with the inability to remember simple things for the remainder of her life. For the duration of her life she endured deep sleeps, or uncontrolled rest that conquered her all of a sudden as an aftereffect of the damage received by the weight. Rather than conceding to the reality of the unfavorable situation and giving up hope, young Harriet Tubman elected to turn to God, building up a solid
...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.
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in the year 1819. Her parents were slaves to their masters. She was hired as young as 5, being her first job. At 12, she was old enough to work in the fields and received harsh treatment from her masters. When she was going through these various jobs, her christian faith started to grow stronger and it gave her strength and hope in her life. In 1849, she had been working for Edward Bordress along with her brothers and soon her master died. Harriet was worried about being sold into harsh conditions along with her family. She changed her name to Tubman (her husbands last name, John Tubman), helping her disguise herself. She escaped with her two brothers along a trail called the Underground Railway. They travelled along it during the night and escaped to Pennsylvania in 1849. Many individuals offered housing and protection along the way to Pennsylvania. This led to the Underground Railway that saved many African Americans from slavery.