Most of the world knows of Harriet Tubman from her courageous, but most of all determined, adventures during the time while slavery still existed. She was an amazing woman who wanted to fight in the ongoing war for freedom that was between the slaves and their owners. Being a slave, Tubman had seen and been through a lot of suffering because of that. Tubman, along with the rest of the slaves, was tired of the constant suffering and feeling as if being an African American meant that she was a part of an awful and degrading race. Something had to be done, even if it was only a drop of water into an engulfing flame. Harriet Tubman’s determination for the freedom of all African Americans during her trips through the Underground Railroad was that
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Without her determination for wanting to get the slaves to freedom, she would not have been able to stand up and keep her group in order. A man on one of the trips through the Underground Railroad was becoming uneasy, and wanted to stay where they were hiding for the night. Clinton states in her book that Tubman knew that if he stayed he would be a goner, so she pointed a gun to his head and proceeded to say “Move or die.” The man was smart to stick with his group instead of staying (Clinton ). James McGowan quotes Harriet Tubman saying “times were very critical and therefore no foolishness would be indulged in on the road” (McGowan 42). She was more than just determined to keep everyone in her groups together, but also keeping them safe because she wanted each person to feel the way she felt when she became free. This is one of the reasons why she was the Moses of her people. According to the book Harriet Tubman: A Biography, Tubman had made several visits back to her home state of Maryland that always ended up at the gates of freedom (McGowan 41). In January of 1863, Tubman had been honored to experience, what she was determined to fight for, for the rest of her life, the Emancipation Proclamation (Clinton 163). A passage from Harriet Tubman: A Biography quotes Mrs. Tubman explaining the feeling when she became a free
Without her determination for wanting to get the slaves to freedom, she would not have been able to stand up and keep her group in order. A man on one of the trips through the Underground Railroad was becoming uneasy, and wanted to stay where they were hiding for the night. Clinton states in her book that Tubman knew that if he stayed he would be a goner, so she pointed a gun to his head and proceeded to say “Move or die.” The man was smart to stick with his group instead of staying (Clinton ). James McGowan quotes Harriet Tubman saying “times were very critical and therefore no foolishness would be indulged in on the road” (McGowan 42). She was more than just determined to keep everyone in her groups together, but also keeping them safe because she wanted each person to feel the way she felt when she became free. This is one of the reasons why she was the Moses of her people. According to the book Harriet Tubman: A Biography, Tubman had made several visits back to her home state of Maryland that always ended up at the gates of freedom (McGowan 41). In January of 1863, Tubman had been honored to experience, what she was determined to fight for, for the rest of her life, the Emancipation Proclamation (Clinton 163). A passage from Harriet Tubman: A Biography quotes Mrs. Tubman explaining the feeling when she became a free