...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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...1800’s A miraculous hero once said “[M]y people must be free” -Harriet Tubman. Tubman was born into slavery which ignited her desire to free the colored. The “Underground Railroad” became born and led the people to freedom. Her heroic acts weren’t finished, she later became a spy and created a home where runaway slaves could stay. Harriet Tubman may have started her life as an abused slave, but the woman known as Moses determined to become not only a spy, but a hero. As a child, Tubman was having a rocky time being the color she was born with, yet through it all she still had faith as strong as an ox. All hero’s struggle in the beginning and “[P]hysical violence was part of daily life for Tubman and her family”(“Tubman, Harriet”)....
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...Heroes are people who make a difference for the better. A heroic person loves helping people. Heroes are people who achieve something that an average person does not achieve. These individuals have perseverance and are well respected. One Hero Many people admire is Harriet Tubman for helping many people to freedom. The life of hero Harriet Tubman had struggles and hard times. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery around 1820 in Maryland, she was one of nine siblings. In 1849 Harriet's owner fell ill and later died, she saw this as her chance to escape. She traveled nearly 90 miles on the underground railroad rather than continuing to live her life in the north, Harriet made it her mission to help her family to freedom.Harriet not only rescued her family from slavery but also rescued hundreds of other slaves.In the few years Harriet was working on the underground railroad she earned the nickname "Moses" and became the most famous "Conductor".When Harriet decided she was done being a conductor of the underground railroad she had rescued her parents, several siblings, and about 60 other slaves. After Harriet rescued her family from slavery she served as a nurse, scout, and spy for union government during the...
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...The Railroad Worker She was a hero, a woman, an African American, and a former slave who risked her life to bring many slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. She escaped to freedom herself but then returned to the south many times risking that freedom to rescue not only her family but people she didn't know. She was a hero. She was also as wife, a daughter, a mother, a spy, a nurse, a cook, and an army scout for the Union Army. She was a woman of strong moral character who didn't back down from what she believed in. She was brave, she was just. She was small and petite but she never backed down. She never lost a passenger on any of her journeys. Harriet Tubman during the civil war in any possible way she could such as cooking food,...
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...know that Harriet Tubman will soon be the face of the $20 bill? To accomplish this, she risked her own life by freeing slaves and fighting for rights as the conductor of the Underground Railroad. She was motivated and had a strong character, she was a true hero, and she impacted history. If it weren’t for Tubman's motivation and determined personality many slaves would have never known freedom. According to History.com Tubman was, "born a slave on Maryland's Eastern shore, she endured the harsh existence of a field hand, including brutal beatings." This shows why Tubman was so motivated to be free. After being a slave for approximately 29 years she had escaped (biography.com). The amazing part is that she wasn't satisfied with her own freedom, she wanted everyone to be free. She constantly said, "Mah people mus' go free." -History.com. She wanted everyone to know freedom so badly that she freed more and more...
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...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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...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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...for a hero; a person with abnormal abilities. We’ve all been taught to believe what’s on tv since childhood, giving us a different point of view on life. For example, thinking it is all fake because it’s exactly what we want for life to be like, to become our fantasy. In a way, we all grow out of that thought as we get older and mature but it has also just been a way to kill our dreams. But, as you’ve most likely heard, not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes, our hero might be someone we never thought had existed or sometimes it’s somebody who we acknowledge the presence of on a daily basis. Truth is, a hero is simply...
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...Would you risk your life to save someone else, just like Harriet Tubman? My definition of extraordinary is special or unique, and my definition of ordinary is normal. I believe that heroes are extraordinary because they do many things that change how people look at the world differently, like saving people’s lives, for example. To begin with, let’s look at the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, who is an extraordinary hero because he changed the MLB. After he retired, many MLB teams changed their strategies. He led the path for many African Americans who wanted to go to the MLB, and he also broke the color barrier in 60 years. Therefore, this makes him an extraordinary hero because he changed how the world looked differently towards...
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...Walker English 10H 20 February 2024 The Life of Harriet Tubman Who is Harriet Tubman? Many would say she was an escaped slave who helped others like her gain freedom using the Underground Railroad. However, she is so much more than that. Harriet Tubman is not only a role model for all women who want to make a difference in the world and have all odds stacked against them, but also, a determined, strategic, and powerful person. She has faced many trials and tribulations over the course of her long, eventful lifetime. As she once said, "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had the right to, liberty or death; if I could have one, I would have the other.”(Dawson). Her early life, accomplishments,...
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...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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...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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...all taught about the importance of currency and the history of money. In the articles “Harriet Tubman Ousts Andrew Jackson in Change for a $20,” by Jackie Calmes and “Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill: Not all readers are thrilled,” by Paul Thornton explain both sides of how Americans feel about having Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Andrew Jackson should remain the face of the $20 bill because his removal would cause more racial and gender tension among American citizens. Andrew Jackson is known for his accomplishments and for being on the $20 bill. During his time period it was “acceptable” to own slaves because society made it okay. The article by Jackie Calmes explains how Andrew Jackson, “...a white man known as much for his persecution of Native Americans…” However, whoever decided that Jefferson paid a good tribute to America thought he was a reasonable candidate to be on the bill. In Paul Thorntons article an everyday person, Arthur Senzy of Santa Monica, explains, “ ...war heroics and advocacy for the common man …” This is something that more people should focus on, this had an everlasting effect on America, he led a good example. Plenty of men...
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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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...but what really is a hero? A hero is someone who shows remarkable perseverance and courage. Perseverance means that you never give up and courage is when you are not afraid to do something. A hero should also be hard working which means they always do their best and does it diligently. Anyone who shows any of these qualities is a hero. A true hero is a person that is hard working. Jackie Robinson is perfect for this. He was the 1st African American to play major league baseball in history. His road to success was not so easy though. He was mistreated by all of the other white players in the league because they didn’t like him. Jackie Robinson was constantly getting big cuts on his legs because when he would slide into base, the other players would get him with the bottom of their cleats. Jackie Robinson was on the Brooklyn Dodgers so many of his own teammates did not like him. Many of the pitchers from other teams threw the ball at him which gave him many bruises. Despite all of this, Jackie Robinson became a star in baseball and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to a World Series appearance. This example of Jackie Robinson shows that no matter how much adversity you go through, if you keep on working hard, you can achieve great things. Heroes also show the great quality of perseverance. Harriet Tubman is someone who showed exemplary perseverance. She was a slave that worked hard, but was still abused by her plantation owner. One day she decided that she was going to escape and that’s...
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