Harriet Tubman A Brave Woman Essay

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Harriet Tubman once was a slave, slaves were considered properties and don’t have any rights. Harriet ran away but she decided to come back and help more slaves escape to freedom. Like slavery in the 1800s, child labor is occurring all around the world, they get paid a very low wage for working long hours and dangerous jobs. Harriet Tubman is relevant to today’s society because Harriet Tubman is a inspiration to today’s brave people and her actions can be learned to revise other issues today like child labor.

Like the other abolitionists, Harriet Tubman is a brave woman. Harriet Tubman is a brave individual who risks her life to help slaves runaway. In the excerpt on page 263, line 45, it states “There were eleven in this party, including
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Next, the government around the world should set laws to prevent any children’s death from occurring. During my research, a photographer named Lewis Hine is one person who tried to stop child labor. He traveled across the U.S to where they hire children to work in dangerous mills and took photos to prove to the world that this is totally wrong and unacceptable. In a article it states “Over the next decade and a half, Hine traveled to half of the continental United States, taking photos of everything from the Breaker boys in the mines of Pennsylvania — whose job was to separate coal from slate — to the children working in cotton mills in Georgia and Alabama.”This quote shows how Lewis Hine had the braveness to show up at these places and take pictures to get the world’s attention about the unfairness in child labor. Finally, Harriet Tubman is a brave inspiration to all people like Lewis Hine because she is motivated by her thoughts not by what people around her says. This self motivation keeps her moving on in life. In the excerpt on page 263 line 63, it states “she had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep moving.” She is trying to keep the slaves moving and inspiring …show more content…
In today’s society, even though we have abolish slavery in the United States there is still slavery in other countries. Harriet Tubman is a inspiration to people today because her bravery and determination inspires people to be like her and act like her. If more and more people learn from Harriet, then the world would be a better

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