Compare And Contrast Mother Jones And Harriet Tubman

Have you had an inspirational person in your life. Someone who has ever helped you to do things you wouldn’t do well or start something but your too scared to do it. Mother Jones and Harriet Tubman are two of the most inspirational people that did do something for the greater good two women that inspired many people and gave hope.Mother Jones was a woman that saw after the children working in the mills saw the conditions and wanted to help the children so she organized a march and went straight to the president. Harriet Tubman was a slave that wanted to be free like all the other slaves she was a tough young woman when she heard about the story of the underground railroad. She used the underground railroad to help free many slaves and gave …show more content…
The beating she got made her tough and she hated doing house work so she worked with the men doing every back breaking job that only men could do and even better most of the times. Harriet had been taught the forbidden song by her mother Old Rit as it states in the text “Old Rit taught Harriet the words of the song that slaves were forbidden to sing… Sometimes, in the quarter, Harriet heard snaches of it, sung under the breath almost whispered “Go down, Moses…” But she learned the words so well that she never forgot them.” The condition in which Harriet and the other slave were in were horrible as it is stated in the text “The children under eight had neither shoes, stockings, jacket nor trousers. They were issued two tow-linen shirts a year-short, one-piece garments made of a coarse material like burlap, reaching to the