Harriet Tubm The Female Role Model

For many of us, our female role models are our moms, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters, and for our nation, its exactly the same. We have countless number of women to thank for everything we have. Things that were once only dreamed of now taken for granted. many of us are lucky to be in the United States, to have the freedom we have, to even have the parents we have. Not only have these women worked hard for the female gender equality but many brave souls have fought for their people as a whole. Black women have literally put their race on their backs to try to fight the oppression to gain equality and justice. By any means necessary the selfless women in our history have gone to the best of their abilities to change the course of how the …show more content…
Harriet gained the reputation of a troublemaker as a child and definitely challenged authority. This is something that stuck with Harriet forever and molded her future. Harriets owner passed away and his caregiver was planning on selling all his slaves, and because of this news, she decided to run away, She originally wanted her family and then husband to go with her but they either chickened out or wanted not part in it. In no way, shape, or form, was this going to stop Harriet from gaining her freedom. “Harriet traveled around 100 miles out of Maryland, through Delaware, to Philadelphia” there, she met William Still, a black man who was known as the conductor of what was referred to as the underground railroad(Marszalek). Harriet was nicknamed Moses because though she was a fugitive slave herself, she still helped rescuing slaves and lead them to freedom through the Underground Railroad that she helped create along side William. What the Underground Railroad was, was a a group of abolitionists, Quakers, and other sympathetic black and white people had established a series of, “ houses, barns, caves, and passageways for fugitive slaves to use as they made their way north to freedom”( Marszalek). In December of 1850 Harriet Tubman made her first out of approximately twenty trips back into slavery. Her first trip consisted on bringing her sister and two kids out of slavery. In 1851 she made a trip to rescue her brother and his family. She had also made a trip to rescue her husband but when she arrived he was still uninterested and remarried, that didn't phase her. Harriet was one of the if not the most successful in the whole Underground Railroad operation, “ she rescued somewhere between sixty to three-hundred slaves”(Marszalek). In 1857 Tubman made her most satisfying trip ever, she was able to rescue her parents from slavery. Everyones