Leadership Style Of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was an effective leader, a liberation bringer and a wanted criminal. She escaped from slavery only to journey back into slave states nearly 20 times to rescue people- some friends and family, but mostly strangers- from the bondage of slavery. Her life and leadership was nothing short of heroic: a tale of true servant leadership and self-sacrifice for the freedom of those suffering injustice. Everything she accomplished, she did while living under enormous oppression herself, yet, her leadership was effective and her legacy lives on. As the literature shows, Harriet Tubman’s story is a snapshot of the kind of oppression black women have been under since enslavement in the United States, and it is also a story of the kind of resistance and resilience black women leaders can possess. Black women live under a duality of gender and racial oppression and as such, lead in this context. How does oppression speak to a black woman’s leadership? This review of literature regarding history …show more content…
Morris, 2003). Despite the Constitution declaring that all men were created equal and everyone has certain inalienable rights- enslaved people were left out of this group. Enslaved Africans and their descendants were classified as property and as property, he/she was controlled by proper-ty owners. Property owners had the right to institute regulations regarding their property (ie. the movement of and whereabouts). These regulations regarding property served the benefit of the property owner, only. The enactment of the Fugitive Slave Clause (which later became the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850) is a clear expression of political oppression against Africans and their descendants to not only keep them from participating in a democratic government but to control them as articles of property (Finkelman,