As Harriet Tubman once said, “ Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world”. Tubman was born into slavery, and at the age of five was hired to do childcare. When Tubman got older, she decided to try and escape slavery and although it was very challenging, Harriet escaped and made it her life's work to help others escape slavery to. Harriet Tubman was a nurse, the creator of the Underground railroad, a spy, and a caregiver. Although all of the things Harriet did in her life were good things, there was one that was the greatest, meaning the riskiest, the most time consuming, and helped the most people and that was the Underground …show more content…
According to document C, during the time that Harriet was a spy, she managed to round up eight-hundred slaves in one night and help them escape while Harriet herself was behind the lines which was very tricky to escape from. One eighth of the slaves that were rescued ended up joining the army and helped gather more slaves from the camps. Although this was a great achievement for Harriet because of how many slaves she got in one camp and how risky it was to be behind the lines, it was not as time consuming as the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was only a spy for one night, and although everything else meets the criteria of the “greatest” achievement, it was only one day of greatness were the Underground Railroad was a ten year job of …show more content…
For forty-eight years after the Civil War Harriet was now an older women and took care of the blind, the epileptic, and the paralyzed. Although this was honorable thing to do especially since at this time Harriet Tubman was an older women. In document E it states that Harriet always had about six to eight people in her care, adding up to about fifty people helped while Harriet was a caregiver. However, when Tubman created the Underground Railroad she ended up saving up to 38,000 lives. Without Harriet coming up with the idea of the railroad, those 38,000 people might not escaped from