...We know Harriet Tubman as the woman who got freedom and went back to bring other people to freedom. Also you can probably guess that she didn’t like slavery. Thing that you did not know is where she lived and probably don’t even no how old she was when she did it. You probably don’t even no when this came to her mind. Well let me tell you it happened when she was 15 years old in Bucktown, Maryland this was stated in “The Woman Called Moses.” Now there’s two text that talks about Harriet Tubman. That is “The Woman Called Moses” by: Walter Oleksy and Meg Mims, then in “Leaders of the Civil War Era: Harriet Tubman” by: Ann Malaspina. These two authors wrote these passages to inform us about Harriet Tubman and what she did. These two passages are similar but are...
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...These two texts are about Harriet Tubman and slavery. Slavery was a big deal than and now but these texts explains her hardships then. Harriet faced slavery like now one ever did. These texts I thought where really great at explaining what she had to endure. They tell what she did to survive. There was a girl who stood up against the confederate. This girl was Harriet Tubman. Tubman raised money for the war. Tubman worked under Colonel James Montgomery. Tubman helped spy for the union and later saved 700 to 800 slaves. Harriet lived in a one room cabin, windowless and shared with her parents. She was a slave and didn’t want to be a slave anymore. One night her fear was replaced by the urged to escape slavery. Fourteen years of bone breaking...
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...The Life and Work of Harriet Tubman One of the most memorable African American women known to this day is Harriet Tubman. Everyone knows her by Harriet Tubman, but what society does not know her by, is Araminta Harriet Ross. She decided to change her name to Harriet in her teens because it was her mother’s first name. She did not have any choice but was to be born into slavery. Ever since she was a baby, that was all she known. She was born in the 1820’s in Dorchester County, Maryland on a plantation. Died on March 10th, 1913 in Auburn, New York. Harriet is known to be an African American abolitionist, humanitarian and was a Union spy during the American Civil War. Tubman had made a choice and escaped from slavery. She made thirteen missions to rescue more than seventy slaves all around. The Underground Railroad was a way she used antislavery activists and safe houses. Later in her days, she helped a man named, John Brown who recruited men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. There soon was a post-war era that struggled for women’s suffrage. Harriet Tubman was a very strong, independent woman and never gave up to help other African Americans from becoming marketed in the slave trade. Harriet’s mother had been selected to be apart of the big house where they sold off slaves to people. Tubman acted like a big sister and took care of her younger brother and a baby in the house. When Harriet Tubman was about five or six years of age, Brodess hired her out to Miss Susan...
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...Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a historical, independent woman throughout her whole life. She saved hundreds of slaves by the Underground Railroad and was known for that the rest of her life. Overall, she impacted many people to do what they want if their heart and mind in is it. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland [America’s Story]. She lived on Maryland’s eastern shore as a slave, in harsh land and cruel beatings. When she was old enough she realized what the white people were doing to her was not right. In 1849 Tubman left Maryland, leaving her husband, John Tubman, her parents, sister, and brothers [Harriet Tubman]. The Underground Railroad was a secret group of people who gave runaway slaves safe places...
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...Harriet Tubman help a lot of slaves in the 1800’s. The Passages Leaders of the Civil War Era: Harriet Tubman by: Ann Malaspina and The Woman Called Moses by: Walter Oleksy and Meg Mims are both similar. Both passages talk about how she helped so many slaves. They do talk about in in a different way. One talks about her help in the war and the other talks about her escape from slavery. She helped the union in the war. First she became a spy and helping other slaves. She would get behind enemy lines and get info like their strength and tell the union. She helped Colonel Montgomery and black solders get behind enemy lines a destroyed a supply line. That’s how she helped in the war. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery. At the age of fourteen she...
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...The Legacy of Harriet Tubman Often called the ``Moses`` of her people Harriet Tubman is an individual who fought for change and won. She fought for the Abolitionist Movement: and later in life she also helped Women’s Rights in her lifetime. Through Harriett, many great successes were achieved in ending slavery on a large scale, without her slavery may have taken longer to be abolished. Harriet Tubman was born in Bucktown, Maryland on a large plantation in 1820, her parents were Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green: both slaves. Her original name was Araminta, ``Minty``, She changed it later when she married John Tubman, she had no children with her first or second husband, Nelson Davis. She met her husband John Tubman...
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...HARRIET TUBMAN By: Amber Shelton Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 to slave parents. Her mother, Harriet Green (also called Rit), was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess. Rit was later owned by Mary Pattison Brodess’ son Edward. Her father, Ben Ross, was legally owned by Mary’s second husband, Anthony Thompson, who ran a large plantation near Blackwater River in Madison, Maryland. RIt was a cook for the Brodess family. Ben was a skilled woodsman who managed the timber work on the plantation. They married around 1808 and had nine children together. Lenah, Mariah RItty, Soph, Robert, Harriet, Ben, Rachel, Henry, and Moses. As a child, Harriet took care of a younger brother and a baby because her mother was assigned to “the big house” and had scarce time for her own family. At the age of five or six, she was hired out to a woman named “Mrs. Susan” as a nursemaid. Harriet was ordered to keep watch over the baby as it slept. She was whipped every time the baby woke and cried. Later, Harriet was threatened for stealing a lump of sugar, and hid in a neighbor’s pig sty for five days where she fought the animals for scraps of food. Starving, she returned to Mrs. Susan’s house and received a heavy beating. To protect herself from such abuse she wrapped herself in layers of clothing, but cried out as if less protected. Harriet also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook, where she was ordered into nearby marshes to check the muskrat traps. Even after contracting measles,...
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...Tubman was born as Araminta Ross around 1820 a slave in Maryland as one of eleven children of two parents who were born in Africa. Some time in her time at the plantation she changed her name from Araminta to Harriet, though it is unknown when. Tubman suffered under the bonds of slavery when in 1844 she discovered that legally she wasn’t a slave because her mother was freed by her last owner. Tubman’s lawyer advised her not to press the case because she waited too long for the court to consider the case. Know she was technically free made Tubman long for freedom. Around this same time, she married a free black man, John Tubman, their marriage quickly ended when he threatened to sell her down stream in the deep south. Tubman fled the South by the Underground Railroad, which was a string of abolitionist willing to help slaves escape to freedom. However, Tubman would return to the South repeatedly to lead escaping slaves to safety. For her actions, she was nicknamed Moses by working slaves, this referred to the book of Exodus in the Old Testament of the Bible how God sends Moses to bring the Israelites out of slavery and into the promised land. As the start of the Civil War crept up, Tubman was already helping John Brown with his plans, she would have gone along to the skirmish, but she fell ill. Tubman seemed to be known by everyone and at the heart of the Union. She served as a spy, nurse, army scout, and leader. Tubman helped organize that “contraband”...
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...resisted in many ways in all areas of the New World. The types and degrees of resistance varied slightly in different parts of the New World, but it is shown through many slave narratives and scholarly essays that slave women, in all areas, resisted and rebelled every day. This is how they survived slavery. Resistance repeatedly brought the slave woman out of objectification and gave the slave woman strength and existence as able subjects. Figure 1: An enslaved woman Maroon women showed women were leaders in rebellions and as priestesses who rallied troops in the hopes of obtaining their freedom. The most formidable in Jamaica was the Ashanti Nanny maroon. Being a free woman she never personally experienced slavery, but was painfully aware of the suffering of her fellow enslaved countrymen and women. She led a highly organised community in the Back Rio Grande Valley in resistance. She never partook in the fighting but using the magico-religious tactics she advised on the best time to wage war, gave charms to protect warriors and participated with military commanders in rituals designed to weaken the enemy. Figure 2: An enslaved woman Its revolts like these shocked the British government and made them see that the costs and dangers of keeping slavery in the West Indies were too high. In places like Jamaica, many terrified plantation owners were finally ready to accept abolition rather than risk a widespread war. Additionally, The...
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...Different Era in the History of Nursing From Dark Ages to Renaissance (THE MIDDLE AGES) During the late middle Ages (1000-1500) -the crowding and poor sanitation in the monasteries nurses went into the community. During this era hospitals were built and the number of medical schools increases. Between 1500 and 1860 (A.D.) -the Renaissance all affected nursing. As nursing was not valued as an intellectual endeavor it lost much of its economic support and social status. The nursing conditions were at their worst and have been called the dark period of nursing. New hospitals had been built but quickly became places of horror as unsanitary conditions caused them to be a source of epidemics and disease. In 1545 -the council of Trent decreed that every community of women should live in strict enclosure. It took over 200 years of resistance for women to overcome this decree. The nursing sisters of France made little or no resistance such that their professional standards deteriorated. In the late 1500's - several groups began nursing and tending the sick, poor, and dying. These groups were St. Francis de Sales, the Order of the Visitation of Mary, St. Vincent DePaul, the Sisters of Charity, Dames de Charite', Louise le Gras, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John, Albuquerque, Order of St. Augustine, St. Camillas De Lellis, Jeanne Biscot, and the Nursing Sisters of St. Joseph de La Fleche. Many of these people came from rich and influential families. The...
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...Christian, marry John Rolfe 1614 born son 1615 Thomas Rolfe, dead unknown cause Margaret Brent Maryland. she was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the Common Law. She was a significant founding settler in the early histories of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Lord Calvert, Governor of the Maryland Colony, appointed her as the executrix of his estate in 1647, at a time of political turmoil and risk to the future of the settlement. She helped ensure soldiers were paid and given food to keep their loyalty to the colony,[1] thereby very likely having saved the colony from violent mutiny,[1] although her actions were taken negatively by the absentee colonial proprietor in England, Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore,[1] and so ultimately she paid a great price for her efforts and was forced to leave the colony.[1] Anne Bradstreet. she writes poetry and married a rich man who took her to colonial and her brother steals her poetry to England and publishes it as THE TENTH MOSE and describes her as the perfect puritan wife Anne Hutchinson. marry to a merchant, can read and write and advice people. midwife also holds weekly meetings for bible studies and religion. putted on trail 1637 for speaking bible to people in public and got kicked out of colony and killed in Indian attack Marry Rowlandson. puritan woman, married puritan minister had two kids boy n girl, got shot in King Philips war 1675-76 and were 13 dead 24 captive, reunited...
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...Some of the earliest traces of slavery are in the Code of Hammurabi in 1760 BC, there probably earlier traces as well. It has traces as old as Sumer 2500 BC and tons of other ancient civilizations. It started out as a punishment,then if a slave was born from another slave, to pay off debt, and also capturing someone from war. In africa, slaves were used for many different things, from trading to household, and to working on the land provided. Slaves were often put onto ships as ‘cargo’ and then put into a pen once off the ship, then they were washed with oil or tar or animal fats to make their skin look nicer. Strong men and strong woman were sold first usually, due to they thought they would do more work, They were sold in two types of ways, one is called Grab and go, where you buy a ticket and then run in and get 1 or more slaves you wanted, the other way is Highest bidder wins, which is where they have the bidder's bid as high as you can pay until everyone else ‘drops out’ of bidding. Although it was completely outlawed by 2007, there are more slaves in...
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...Bibliographic Essay on African American History Introduction In the essay “On the Evolution of Scholarship in Afro- American History” the eminent historian John Hope Franklin declared “Every generation has the opportunity to write its own history, and indeed it is obliged to do so.”1 The social and political revolutions of 1960s have made fulfilling such a responsibility less daunting than ever. Invaluable references, including Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Evelyn Brooks Higgingbotham, ed., Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001); Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr., eds., The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001); and Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, eds., Dictionary of Afro- American Slavery (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988), provide informative narratives along with expansive bibliographies. General texts covering major historical events with attention to chronology include John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000), considered a classic; along with Joe William Trotter, Jr., The African American 1  Experience (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001); and, Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold, The...
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...Women and their forgotten role in Slavery Nigel Sadler Sands of Time Consultancy Often when the history of slavery is studied the argument is over whose history is being told. This debate rarely goes beyond whether it is the history as written by or about the white or black involvement. There is often an assumed male history. History books mainly reflect the involvement of men. The abolitionists (Clarkson and Wilberforce), the Slave traders (Canot) and the enslaved (Equaino). In portrayal of enslaved people, men appear more frequently. In the movie Amistad it is told from the point of view of Cinque; in the TV series Roots it follows Kunta Kinte. This male dominated history fails to acknowledge, belittles and devalues the role of women at all levels of slavery. What about the female slave traders, slave owners, enslaved females, female rebels and abolitionists? Are they really invisible? Verene Shepherd, in Women in Caribbean History states that up until the 1970s Caribbean books neglected women because early historians looked at colonisation, government, religion, trade and war fare, activities men were more involved in. Also some historians felt that women’s issues did not merit inclusion and where women could have been included, such as slave uprisings, their contributions were ignored. Shepherd believes changes occurred with the influence of women’s groups who tried to correct the gender neutral or male biased history. There was also a shift into social history...
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...and reservoir construction Harriet Strong 1887 Direct and return mailing envelope Beulah Henry 1962 Dishwasher Josephine Cochran 1872 Drinking fountain device Laurene O'Donnell 1985 Electric hot water heater Ida Forbes 1917 Elevated railway Mary Walton 1881 Engine muffler El Dorado Jones 1917 Feedback control for data processing Erna Hoover 1971 Fire escape Anna Connelly 1887 Globes Ellen Fitz 1875 Grain storage bin Lizzie Dickelman 1920 Improved locomotive wheels Mary Jane Montgomery 1864 Improvement in dredging machines Emily Tassey 1876 Improvement in stone pavements Emily Gross 1877 Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests Stephanie Kwolek 1966 Life raft Maria Beaseley 1882 Liquid Paper correction fluid Bette Nesmith Graham 1956 Locomotive chimney Mary Walton 1879 Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899 Mop-wringer pail Eliza Wood 1889 Oil burner Amanda Jones 1880 Permanent wave for the hair Marjorie Joyner 1928 Portable screen summer house Nettie Rood 1882 Refrigerator Florence Parpart 1914 Rolling pin Catherine Deiner 1891 Rotary engine Margaret Knight 1902 Safety device for elevators Harriet Tracy 1892 Street cleaning machine Florence Parpart 1900 Submarine lamp and telescope Sara Mather 1845 Suspenders Laura Cooney 1896 Washing machine Margaret Colvin 1871 Windshield wiper Mary Anderson 1903 Zigzag sewing machine Helen Blanchard 1873 Harriet Russell Strong of Oakland...
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