“I had reasoned this out in my mind: There was two thing I had a right liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive”(Harriet Tubman: Quote...). Harriet Tubman is a hero because of her involvement with the underground railroad and her slave life.
When Araminta was about 5 or 6 when she began working as a house servant. From a very young age she was determined to gain her freedom. She spent little time living with Brodess, he often hired her out temporary masters, some of whom who were cruel and negligent. When she was 13, the plantation overseer struck her on the head while she was protecting another slave from punishment, causing her afterward fall asleep and experience visions and severe headaches and narcoleptic episodes for the rest of …show more content…
She cared for her parents and other needy relatives, turning her residence into a home for indigent and aged african americans. Tubman became the railroad's most famous conductor and was know as the “Moses of her people”. It been said that she never lost a fugitive she was leading to freedom. She worked closely with the underground railroads. Often she would leave fugitives in the care of other “conductors” after leading them part of the way herself. She would work with small groups of runaways that would travel at night, sometimes a distance of 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32 km). If anyone in the small group changes his or her mind during the journey to freedom and return, tubman pulled out a gun and said “You'll be a free slave or a dead slave!” She made 19 trips to maryland and helped 300 people to freedom. She helped rescue members of her own family, including her 70 year- old parents. By the time she reached adulthood she already had a want for $40,00 and have saved around half the african american people on the eastern shore of maryland were free (ABC-
When Araminta was about 5 or 6 when she began working as a house servant. From a very young age she was determined to gain her freedom. She spent little time living with Brodess, he often hired her out temporary masters, some of whom who were cruel and negligent. When she was 13, the plantation overseer struck her on the head while she was protecting another slave from punishment, causing her afterward fall asleep and experience visions and severe headaches and narcoleptic episodes for the rest of …show more content…
She cared for her parents and other needy relatives, turning her residence into a home for indigent and aged african americans. Tubman became the railroad's most famous conductor and was know as the “Moses of her people”. It been said that she never lost a fugitive she was leading to freedom. She worked closely with the underground railroads. Often she would leave fugitives in the care of other “conductors” after leading them part of the way herself. She would work with small groups of runaways that would travel at night, sometimes a distance of 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32 km). If anyone in the small group changes his or her mind during the journey to freedom and return, tubman pulled out a gun and said “You'll be a free slave or a dead slave!” She made 19 trips to maryland and helped 300 people to freedom. She helped rescue members of her own family, including her 70 year- old parents. By the time she reached adulthood she already had a want for $40,00 and have saved around half the african american people on the eastern shore of maryland were free (ABC-