How Is Harriet Tubman Successful

There are very few people that have been on this earth who were truly selfless. These people spent their entire lives helping other people, and they never thought twice about it. Selfless people never asked for anything in return, and never expected anything for what they did. People like this do many great things throughout their lives, but how do we judge greatness? Greatness is defined differently for everyone, however an easy way to tell is how many people were helped, the time it took and how big was the risk. One of these people was Harriet Tubman. Tubman was a slave that grew up in Maryland. When Harriet Tubman got older she ran away from Maryland to the northern parts of America. Harriet Tubman did many spectacular things throughout her life;she was a civil war spy, a Nurse, a caregiver, however, her greatest achievement by far was being a conductor on the underground railroad. …show more content…
harriet was a part of a group that rescued eight hundred slaves from South Carolina on July 3rd, 1863. Once she save all of those people she and others brought the slavs to the northern states where 100 or so men that she saved enlisted in the army. Although Harriet Tubman rescued all of those slaves there was not a large risk and the whole rescue only took one night. She did save lot of people that night, however, she helped more people over all the time she spent working as a caregiver and nurse. These might not have been Harriet's greatest achievement but she still saved a lot of people that night, people who would have better lives now that they were out of the clutches of their