Harriet Tubman was an extraordinary heroine who devoted her life to assisting others gain their freedom from slavery through the Underground Railroad. Numerous events has transpired throughout Harriet Tubman’s early life. Furthermore, during Tubman’s difficult and tiresome journey, events occurred that forever altered her livelihood. Lastly, in Harriet Tubman’s later life, a multitude of various happenings took place with caused her to become an important figure in the fight to appeal slavery. As a child and adolescent, a variety of events had occur, which molded her into the person we know and value in modern day and history.
Harriet Tubman’s early life played a critical role in developing Tubman for the life in which she would eventually …show more content…
She made a rigorous journey to the north to become a free person. Upon hearing about the Underground Railroad from the Quaker woman, she began planning her escape to a free life. On a dark winter night, Harriet Tubman started her long and tiresome journey to the free northern states. Following the North Star and looking at the direction that the moss grew on trees she made her way to the north. Harriet traveled through freezing rivers to hide her scent from search dogs; furthermore, wanted signs began to appear everywhere. Slave hunters sweep the land searching for the runaway. Harriet came across a barn where she thought that she could hide. A man entered the premises, and to Harriet’s surprise, he offered her a warm place to stay, food to fill her famished stomach, and new clothes. They created a plan to deceive slave hunters. Tubman was fashioned as a male; thus, the slave hunters did not suspect anything of her. After that, she continued on her way to the north. Once in Wilmington, Delaware, Harriet Tubman meets Thomas Garrett, a Quaker, who supplies Tubman with a new pair of shoes. Shortly thereafter, Harriet Tubman arrived at William Still’s church on Lombard Street, Philadelphia. Still was president of the anti-slavery society; thus, Harriet Tubman had become a free woman. Upon tasting freedom, Harriet Tubman decided to devote her later life to assisting slaves to run-away to become
Harriet Tubman’s early life played a critical role in developing Tubman for the life in which she would eventually …show more content…
She made a rigorous journey to the north to become a free person. Upon hearing about the Underground Railroad from the Quaker woman, she began planning her escape to a free life. On a dark winter night, Harriet Tubman started her long and tiresome journey to the free northern states. Following the North Star and looking at the direction that the moss grew on trees she made her way to the north. Harriet traveled through freezing rivers to hide her scent from search dogs; furthermore, wanted signs began to appear everywhere. Slave hunters sweep the land searching for the runaway. Harriet came across a barn where she thought that she could hide. A man entered the premises, and to Harriet’s surprise, he offered her a warm place to stay, food to fill her famished stomach, and new clothes. They created a plan to deceive slave hunters. Tubman was fashioned as a male; thus, the slave hunters did not suspect anything of her. After that, she continued on her way to the north. Once in Wilmington, Delaware, Harriet Tubman meets Thomas Garrett, a Quaker, who supplies Tubman with a new pair of shoes. Shortly thereafter, Harriet Tubman arrived at William Still’s church on Lombard Street, Philadelphia. Still was president of the anti-slavery society; thus, Harriet Tubman had become a free woman. Upon tasting freedom, Harriet Tubman decided to devote her later life to assisting slaves to run-away to become