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.…
What motivated her was her masters would physically punish her if she failed to do what they asked. This made her angry, and she decided that one day she would become free. Harriet went to the North with her two brothers and left the plantation. They reached Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began working as a house servant. Harriet started saving the money she made at her job.…
These three have helped many slaves become free because of their hard work. Harriet Tubman had helped the Underground Railroads cause by saving slaves and bringing them to the free states. “ Tubman had made…
Harriet Tubman was well known person, she efforts to help the civil right of woman and woman, even after slavery was outlawed. She use her smarts brain and brave heart to help hundreds of slaves. Harriet Tubman was a daughter of two slaves, she try to protect a slave that get punished but she get hurt from that. However, she doesn't get decadent. She had a plan on escape to the north by free and she is success.…
By 1860, when she was 40 years old, she had already freed 19 slaves, one of which were her 70 year old parents. Harriet Tubman faced many challenges. Back then, Slavery was still legal, and not everyone thought it was a bad thing, so people thought she was breaking the law. She received lots of death threats from other people, one including when she was put on a poster saying “Wanted Dead: 40,000$ reward” which would be 1.1M in today’s money. The best quality Harriet Tubman had was being Brave.…
Her greatest achievement in my opinion is the underground railroad. She worked as a conductor of the underground railroad. She was nicknamed as moses. Harriet tubman knew what she was doing because she knew the place well. Harriet Tubman made a life-changing decision.…
Harriet Tubman is an important woman in history because of her many accomplishments for women, slaves, and racial equality. She risked so much for people she didn’t even know to help them become free from slavery. She fought for what she believed in and the rights of all humans. Her father became freed at the age of 45 but continued to work for his owner. She endured torture and abuse as a slave that left her with lasting medical conditions.…
Harriet Tubman did many spectacular things throughout her life. She was a great leader, not only for African Americans, but for everyone. There were many things that tried to stop Harriet, for example: bounties, and the Fugitive Slave Law, but no matter what-Harriet succeeded. In her life, she was mostly supported by friends, family, and herself. There is one thing left to say, “She was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and she could say what most conductors can’t say: She never ran her ‘train’ off the track, and she never lost a passenger”…
There was a bounty offered for her capture because she was a fugitive slave herself, and she was breaking the law in slave states by helping other slaves escape. The purpose of this paper is to realize the great people who were brave and sacrificed there life for us. I think her mom influenced her because Harriet saw how bad her master treated her mother and thought how she didn’t want her generation to be treated like…
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 was a very influential and religious woman who routinely put herself in danger in order to save hundreds of lives. Born into slavery on the Eastern shore of Maryland, Harriet refused to spend her life in bondage. In 1849, Harriet finally escaped slavery and dedicated her life to fighting for liberty and equality for the love of her family and friends. Her strong faith in God is what motivated her to come back and help liberate thousands of people. During her lifetime, she was known as an Underground Railroad operator, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian.…
They say women can’t do anything but there is one women in mind that did a lot for people. She saved lives, she was the conductor of the Undergrounded RailRoad and she was a brave lady to do what she did. Her name is Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman demonstrated courage by showing Excellence, Integrity, and Respect.…
Harriet Tubman was one of America’s very first civil rights activists, escorting 300 of the estimated 60,000 slaves that escaped the iron grips of slavery. These missions made her one of America’s most iconic heroes. In her time period, this was a title unheard of for women and blacks, making this an achievement especially astounding for Tubman. The influence she built through many efforts in the fields of equality dissipated through America and contributed to a fight that paved the way for the enduring and current struggle against racial oppression still in the country today. The legacy of Harriet Tubman first begins with the establishment of Jamestown in 1619 when ships mainly from the African west coast brought the first generation of enslaved Africans to America.…
The book Harriet Tubman: the road to freedom, by Catherine Clinton gives provides details on Harriet Tubman’s life. Harriet Tubman is an important person, because of her actions during the era of slavery. She was able escape from chains slavery, and Fugitive Slave Acts. Harriet risked her life by going to back in forth into the south to rescue her family members and others that were enslaved. Harriet was able rescue the enslaved people with the help of the Underground Railroad.…
”(Go Down, Moses, 533) Harriet Tubman was an icon, a hero, a great leader. The feats she accomplished happened because greatness was within her. She was her own master and despite all odds she accomplished greatness. She left her…