...Harriet Tubman Biography From Slavery to Freedom: Underground Railroad Conductor, Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate by Jone Johnson Lewis [Harriet Tubman] tried to persuade her brothers to escape [slavery] with her, but ended up leaving alone, making her way to Philadelphia, and freedom. Harriet Tubman Courtesy Library of Congress The year after Harriet Tubman's [arrival in the North, she decided to return to Maryland to free her sister and her sister's family. Over the next 12 years, she returned 18 or 19 more times, bringing a total of more than 300 slaves out of slavery. Harriet Tubman's organizing ability was key to her success -- she had to work with supporters on the clandestine Underground Railroad, as well as get messages to the slaves, since she met them away from their plantations to avoid detection. They usually left on a Saturday evening, as the Sabbath might delay anyone noticing their absence for another day, and if anyone did note their flight, the Sabbath would certainly delay anyone from organizing an effective pursuit or publishing a reward. Harriet Tubman was only about five feet tall, but she was smart and she was strong -- and she carried a long rifle. She used the rifle not only to intimidate pro-slavery people they might meet, but also to keep any of the slaves from backing out. She threatened any who seemed like they were about to leave, telling them that "dead Negroes tell no tales." A slave who returned from one of these trips could betray...
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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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...Visualize, being a slave, and having the chance to escape when you want with other slaves. Well, don't because there was a woman who did that herself, and her name was Harriet Tubman. She was an abolitionist leader she led, a little more than 300 slaves to freedom; including her parents. The points will be, Her life as an abolitionist with some background info, why Harriet Tubman was significant and interesting facts. To begin with, Harriet's life as an abolitionist with some background info as well. Harriet's name before she got married was Harriet Ross, but as she got married to a free slave named John Tubman she changed her name to Tubman. Let alone her real name is from her parents, by her mom's side Harriet Greene, and her dad's side Ben...
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...Historical content: Harriet Tubman was famous for her involvement in the Underground Railroad and helped save slaves escape to freedom in the mid to late 1800’s. The Underground Railroad was a term for a secret network of houses where runaway slaves could stay, overnight, on their journey north by road and tunnels to freedom. Because of Tubman’s expert knowledge of the routes and different towns across the south, when civil war broke out in America, she was a great use to the Union army in their efforts to win. It was her great success in helping slaves escape to a free life that led her people to know her as the “Moses of her people.” The two main historical events that helped this to occur was Congress passing the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) and the Civil War (1861-1865). Backed by the Union army, Tubman became instrumental in rescuing many slaves from a number of plantations in the south. She quickly gained notoriety and was connected to other respected abolitionists of the time, like John Brown. She was so successful at freeing slaves that slaveholders offered money, called a bounty, for her capture. After the end of the Civil...
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...bhvbhvcvgcbgchbchnchbcbgcgvcfvxdfxsfxdfsdsdssdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdfsdsdvvHarriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849, fleeing to Philadelphia. Tubman decided to escape following a bout of illness and the death of her owner in 1849. Tubman feared that her family would be further severed, and feared for own her fate as a sickly slave of low economic value. She initially left Maryland with two of her brothers, Ben and Henry, on September 17, 1849. A notice published in the Cambridge Democrat offered a $300 reward for the return of Araminta (Minty), Harry and Ben. Once they had left, Tubman’s brothers had second thoughts and returned to the plantation. Harriet had no plans to remain in bondage. Seeing her brothers safely home, she soon set off alone for Pennsylvania. Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad to travel nearly 90 miles to Philadelphia. She crossed into the free state of Pennsylvania with a feeling of relief and awe, and recalled later: “When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” Rather than remaining in the safety of the North, Tubman made it her mission to rescue her family and others living in slavery. In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold, along with her two young children. Kessiah’s...
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...Harriet Tubman is know as Ms.Tubman from being married to Mr. Tubman or better known as John Tubman. She kept the name even when he did not support her trying to escape because he was a free slave. He threatened to turn her in several times and when she escaped he immediately re-married. Harriet Tubman had many names and nicknames. Her nickname everyone knows her by today is Moses the biblical hero who helped free slaves from Egypt. When she was a little kid she was called Minty but her real name that her parents called her by was Araminta Ross. Then she took the name Harriet after her mother died. Harriet Tubman was born a slave and has her birthday recorded as March 1822. Harriet always dreamed of being any slaves. Many times 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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...liberty having no experience of it." This is an amazing quote by Harriet Tubman, it shows her perseverance through the hard times. It shows how she came come out on top even through beatings daily, little to no food, loss of family, no education and a severe head injury that almost killed her. Even through all these obstacles, Harriet Tubman was a hero, "the Moses of her people." Harriet Tubman was born a slave named Araminta, where she got the nickname "Minty,'' although she change it later to Harriet, to honor her mother. She was born in Dorchester County in Maryland, in 1820. Her parents, Harriet Ross and Ben Ross, were also slaves. Tubman's family had nine children including her, although three...
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...The goal of the abolitionist movement was the fast emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and exclusion. Abolitionism was partly fueled by Second Great Awakening, which encouraged many people to advocate for emancipation on religious grounds. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly noticeable, which contributed to the regional hostility between North and South leading up to the Civil War. Some Americans felt slavery was necessary for the prosperity of the country, they needed cheap labor in order to support their lifestyle. Others deep down felt that slavery was wrong, Slavery goes against their religious belief. The Abolitionist movement consisted in free blacks, white women and men. Even in colonial times, American societies struggled with the issue of slavery. This continued to be a major issue after independence. The independent, idealistic, and often deeply pious thought that had spurred so many immigrant journeys to the New World also prompted a great many antislavery sentiments among individuals and larger groups. Religion, politics, and philosophy all spurred antislavery activism at various times and in various places. Yet southerners would later mobilize these same forces to defend slavery during the nineteenth century. The Abolitionist Strategy There were many ways Abolitionist tackle the anti-slavery campaign, they develop and three prong attack strategy which consisted in a religious campaign, a political campaign and aiding the fugitive...
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...Harriet Tubman: Early life, main accomplishments, and legacy. The hero of the underground railroad is Harriet Tubman. Harriet was an influential figure during the fight to abolish slavery. It all started with her early life, leading to her main accomplishments and her after-life legacy. Harriet inspired many generations and people across the world. Harriet’s legacy is her bravery to escape from slavery and pursue abolishment. She will forever go down in history for her fight for freedom. As a child, Tubman grew up in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet was originally named Araminta Ross, which she later changed to Harriet Tubman after getting married. Tubman was one of nine children born to Harriet “Rit” and Ben Ross, enslaved people owned by two different families on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. At the age of six, Tubman began to work as a house servant for the Brodess family, who owned Tubman for the majority of her life. The Brodess family would make Tubman work in dangerous, miserable conditions. While Tubman was twenty-five and still enslaved, she married a free black man named John Tubman and later took the last name Tubman. While Tubman was just a teenager, she was severely injured. Tubman’s owner, who was...
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...Yuhan Wang Reform’s Dinner Party Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman, a black woman who was born as a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820. She began to work as a house servant when she at five or six. Harriet Tubman has believed as the Moses by other slaves and the “General Tubman” during the civil war. Harriet Tubman viewed that the American society of slavery as a thing that need to have people stand up and against to it, she uses her whole life try to become one of those people, no matter how hard to achieve, she never gives up. Because of her horrible memories from her childhood, she knows how cruel that white people treat their slaves. Even thou Harriet Tubman already successfully escaped, but she chooses to come back and help other slaves to get their freedom. Because of her hated about the slavery, the only goal she makes in her life is to gain more rights for blacks in this country. The methods she used to free the slaves was to join the Underground Railroad and led hundreds of slaves to the North and Canada to get their freedom. Tubman also served as a scout, spy and nurse during the Civil War; she gives hopes for black people to join the army to against slavery.Harriet Tubman successfully leads an armed expedition in the war and guided the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than 700 slaves in The South Carolina. Harriet Tubman has a substantial impact on American society, the ultimate effect she did was after the Civil War, she returned to Auburn, New...
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...escape. Abolitionists (people who believed slavery should be outlawed) in the North and South needed to work together to provide a way to move more slaves from plantations to free states. These people established a series of places and a system of codes designed...
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...McCaslin). An important figure to recognize during this event is Harriet Tubman. According to the biography, “Harriet Tubman”, the abolitionist is best known for helping hundreds of slaves to escape the slave states, even named as “the Moses of her people”. Her bravery allowed for her success in finding freedom when she escaped Dorchester County, Maryland to arrive in Philadelphia. She traveled back to her home state a total of 13 times to save her family, friends, and others. In honor of Tubman’s work, President Barack Obama designated a section of Maryland’s Eastern Shore as the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument. Harriet Tubman along with the work of other abolitionists during this period led to the successful escape of many enslaved individuals and ultimately led to the passing of the 13th Amendment, the ban of slavery (Barack Obama: Proclamation on Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument). In conclusion, as a society, we should recognize the importance of the Underground Railroad because it is a part of our history. We are in a much better place now compared to then, however, we must reflect on what is right and what is wrong to give everyone equal opportunities to their rights and freedom. Learning about the Underground Railroad allows us to view the perspectives of those who were not in favor of slavery and those who were. People can see the journeys of the slaves involved who hid in the darkness and trusted the North Star to guide their way...
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...Araminta ross, later changed to Harriet tubman achieved many things in her 91 years of life but her most known about achievement is being a underground railroad worker. The second most important is her being a caregiver.Third is her being a civil war spy.Lastly is her being a civil war nurse.In my opinion her most important achievement is her being a underground railroad worker because of the fact that she made a difference in about 300 people's lives making all of them free. First let's start off with tubman's greatest achievement The underground the Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people in efforts to escape to free states or Canada. Harriet was one of the people who helped...
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...century inductees, whom most people associate with the rise of women’s rights, everyone has an anti-slavery activism story as well. Many were radical abolitionists: Angelina Grimké Weld and Sarah Grimké, South Carolina born women who left the south and became immediatist abolitionist speakers and writers, Quaker Minister Lucretia Mott, Harriet Tubman, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, the ‘notorious’ Fanny Wright, Lydia Maria Child, Susan B. Anthony, who did a stint on the paid agency circuit, a public speaking abolitionist firebrand in her own right, Ernestine Rose, Paulina Wright Davis, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. An extraordinary number of these women were either from upstate New York, were active here, spoke here, or chose, like Harriet Tubman, to settle in this region. They wove a 19th century web, an internet of allies and families. Imagine a great web from Maine to Philadelphia, encompassing Boston, New York City, and spanning west to the Ohio Valley and Michigan. They had no telephones, no radios, and no electronic communication. They did write voluminously, letters to one another, to newspapers, to conventions and gatherings. When anti-slavery activists began to speak at meetings, their words were written down, published and passed along. Those who were not literate such as Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman were read to by friends, relatives, and in later years as African-American literacy expanded, often by children. Martha Coffin Wright and Lucretia Mott...
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