Why do heroes act differently than most people? Most heroes are threatened to lose their life for what they think is right. Harriet Tubman lead people north to escape slavery, she had risked a lot and took her mission seriously. Miep Gies help Jews find refuge and risked getting sent to a concentration camp. Ida B. Wells wrote many articles inspiring many people to leave Memphis, she continued to write although she wasn’t able to go back to her home.…
Harriet Tubman is known for her proactive role in the Underground Railroad. However, most people don 't know much detail about her life. Her childhood, head injury, escape, and actions during the Civil War are also important aspects of her life. She was born under the name Araminta "Minty" Ross.…
Harriet Tubman, nicknamed “Minty”, by her parents, Ben Ross and Harriet Green, was a slave. Her father, Ben Ross, also a slave, was owned by Anthony Thompson. Her mom, Harriet Green, was a slave owned by Joseph and Mary Pattison Brodess. Harriet and Ben met sometime in 1803 when Joseph died, and Mary was left in charge of Bucktown Farm and their son, Edward. Mary remarried to Anthony Thompson.…
She began working as a young child from the age of 5. When her master died in 1849, she executed the life-changing decision to run away. Several people recognize Harriet for her bravery and strenuous work in the Underground Railroad, but she also was also a thoughtful and confident leader in the Combahee River Raid and was a generous and caring woman later in life with her charity…
The passage Leaders of the Civil War Era: Harriet Tubman and the passage The Woman Called Moses depict different authors’ purposes. Since they have different purposes this leads to them having similarities and differences. They are different because they use different content in each passage. They are also similar though because they use some of the same content. The authors purpose is to Inform and to persuade which are completely different purposes…
Melanise Otis Research Paper November 30th, 2015 Professor Kelley Harriet Tubman Who was Harriet Tubman and what were her accomplishments? Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist and humanitarian. During the American Civil War, she served as a nurse and a Union spy. Born a slave on Maryland’s eastern shore, in Dorchester County. She was born to enslave parents and her original name was Araminta Harriet Ross.…
Biographical Information Harriet was born in 1820 or 1821 in Dorchester County, Maryland ( exact date not known as there are no written records). She was born on a plantation to slaves Ben and Harriet Ross. Her birthname was Araminta Ross and her nickname was “Minty”. She was the sixth of eleven children. Harriet and her family lived a hard life in a small cabin and worked on a gigantic plantation.…
She always used back roads, waterways, mountains, and swamps to avoid being spotted and would always carry a gun on her. Over time Tubman gained the nickname “Moses” after the biblical story of Moses who attempted to lead the Jews to freedom from slavery. She built her own network of operatives and routes in the northern side of the Underground Railroad. Over the span of 10 years, Tubman returned south 19 times and lead about 300 slaves to freedom.…
Harriet Tubman was a woman with endless bravery and was one of the most selfless people ever. She was like a lioness, fearless, and never backing down, but also caring for her own. In the early 1820s Araminta Ross was born in Maryland as a slave, meaning she grew up doing grueling work from a young age. She later got married and changed her name to Harriet Tubman. Soon afterward, in 1849, Tubman escaped from her master and fled around 120 miles north on foot to Philadelphia.…
Robert Jones Robert Jones was born in Caudle Green, Gloustershire, England on July 9, 1829. He was the only boy in a family of seven sisters. In 1840, he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1852 he married Harriet Tipper and had four children, one dying as a toddler.…
Harriet Tubman’s birth date is not known since she was born in slavery, though she is believed to have been born in 1825 to Ben Ross (Father) and Harriet Green (Mother). At 5 years old , Harriet was hired to take care of an infant. Each time the baby would cry Miss Susan (mother of baby) would whip Harriet around the neck. She got very sick and was fired from her job. Harriet got hired over and over again.…
Harriet Tubman was recruited in 1861 as a volunteer for the Union Army. Throughout the Civil War, she was a valuable asset to the Union and contributed greatly to the success of the Union Army at the end of the war. During her career in the Civil War, she acted as a nurse, cook, and an army spy. She served bravely with love in her heart and eventually came to be known as a hero among the soldiers she worked with and as the Moses of her people for all the great things she accomplished in her life. Tubman 's time in the Civil War started in 1861 when she was recruited as a volunteer into the Massachusetts troop stationed at Fort Monroe, Virginia, on the Western shore of the Chesapeake Bay that was led by General Benjamin Buttler.…
HARRIET TUBMAN Harriet was a slave who escaped to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of people to freedom along the routes of the underground rail road. she was born in 1820 in Dorchester county Maryland. Her birth name is Araminta Harriet Ross. When Harriet Tubman was alive there was a lot of violence surrounding her.…
I think that the most deserving woman included in the book was Harriet Tubman. She was born into slavery, and being a slave is an extremely hard life. She persevered through, and eventually escaped. It would have been easy for her to enjoy her freedom and not help anyone else, but that is the opposite thing that she did. She made 19 trips back down to the Southern areas and freed over 300 slaves.…
She also played an influential role in the abolition movement and had an active part in the Civil War. In the early 1820s, Harriet Ross gave birth to a baby girl, Araminta “Minty” Ross, who would later come to be known as Harriet Tubman. In the first years of her life,…