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The movie Harriet is a great movie to watch. It is very informative. This movie is about Harriet Tubman. It starts with Harriet Tubman and her husband John asking their Master for freedom so their children could be born free. He said no and the Master freed her husband and said he was no longer allowed around their slaves. So one day Harriet was put for sale so she decided to run north for freedom. She had a tough journey getting there, almost drawing and getting cut. Her master thought she drowned but no she survived. Her master's name was Giden. She got in the back of a cart and rode till she could get to freedom and she arrived at the border to Pennsylvania. There she was, free. She meets an officer of the underground railroad corporation …show more content…
They got the best slave hunter around to help try and capture her. But it did not work. When Harriet was trying to help her brothers and sisters and the others escape, they had to cross a river and nobody else wanted to cross because they couldn't swim, but Harriet prayed to god to help them cross the river. God listened and lowered the river for them to cross. She took them to freedom. Then one day the word got out that her father was helping Harriet free slaves and they were going to kill him so she had to go back. She got him and her mother to freedom and others. Then after all that she was welcomed to the underground railroad committee. She was thrilled she had one more person to get her sister, a slave, in the house of her children. She goes back to get them and when she does her slave owner's Wife sets up a plan to try and catch her and burn her alive. But by the time they came back inside, Harriet took her sister and daughter and left. She loaded them on a boat and told Walter they had to go and leave her behind because Gidden her owner and the slave hunter were coming so she got their attention and they followed her and didn't see her family so they went off for freedom and they were free so she get revenge on her owner Gidden and she left and went off for

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