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.…
It took a lot of bravery to risk your own life for others. Harriet Tubman was a really inspiring woman. That's why she is so important. She helped people realize that people are not that different. Harriet Tubman helped us see colored people differently.…
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.…
Harriet Tubman would be in the hall of fame because of her bravery, brains, and kindness. She was born March 1822 in Maryland. Harriet escaped slavery in the south to become a leading abolitionist before the Civil War in America. When she escaped in 1849 she returned many times to rescue her family members and non-relatives from plantations. She led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the north as the most famous “conductor” on the underground railroad.…
She also was extremely brave, Harriet kept fighting until the very end. She risked her own life for the enslaved people. Fun…
On Harriet’s tombstone when she died it said “Servant of God, Well done.” I think that this saying says so much about her because she worked her butt off just to help others when she knew she didn’t have to by any means! Harriet showed compassion when she worked her hardest to find a cure for the people dying during the war, and when she was free from slavery but she wanted to keep helping the others who were not free from slavery which risked her life…
Harriet would never let anyone get left behind and if they did want to turn back and jeprodize anyone elses freedom she told them that if they even tried she'd shoot them in the back. Harriet was given the nickname Mose's by William Lloyd Harrison because she would help get slaves into freedom like moses from the bible helped the Jewish slaves become free from the Egyptians. Soon Harriet was a hero to many enslaved people everyone knew of her and she became wanted for helping to free enslaved people, she was wanted for $300 which now is $3,000 in todays money. Harriet would not only help the enslaved become free but she would also help them find jobs and houses. She would help them by taking them to be with antislavery activist.…
Not only did Harriet Tubman save many individual lives as a first hand navigator through the Underground Railroad, she was also an abolitionist who intensely fought against slavery. Of course, Tubman always had an abolitionist mindset, but she became a formal part of the movement only after meeting key figures. One of these people she had met was John Brown, who went on to lead an armed slave rebellion known as Harpers Ferry. As history tells, his raid was not successful, but Tubman saw the impact the raid made. She later said how "he done more in dying, than 100 men would in living."…
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.…
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.…
In today’s society, even though we have abolish slavery in the United States there is still slavery in other countries. Harriet Tubman is a inspiration to people today because her bravery and determination inspires people to be like her and act like her. If more and more people learn from Harriet, then the world would be a better…
She was a revolutionary; she risked her life numerous times in order to help other people escape. She wanted freedom and that’s what she achieved, she took her life into her own hands challenging the system of slavery. Due to her contributions during the era of slavery,…