The Civil War: Harriet Tubman’s Fight in Freedom The United States was still such a young country, not even a full century old, when the Civil War broke out. The U.S. had banded together and became independent of Britain, and now were on to face separate ideas and morals within their nation. Many people from both the north and the south would have a great impact in the Civil War and the outcome it would have on the future of the United States. One such person was Harriet Tubman, a young black woman born into slavery but with the heart and soul of a free woman. She would play a large part in freeing slaves before and during the Civil War, and even afterwards her acts would be known in the black community in her time and beyond.
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Harriet was born into slavery around 1820 and lived many years being beaten and whipped. As a young teen, Harriet had been hit in the head and was forever stricken with narcolepsy, episodes of sleep and unable to be awoken. During these episodes Harriet claimed to have visions and dreams given to her by God. As she got older her dreams showed her another land with green grass and flowers and white women opening their arms to her (Bradford, 1869). Then with Harriet’s master passing, the imminent future of her family being separated and sold, she fled for freedom in 1849. She went north and found the land her dreams had shown her, but there was still an emptiness. Harriet was free, but she didn’t have her family. From the time Harriet fled to time of the Civil War she made many trips and brought many slaves to Canada and freedom. She rescued most of her family, including her father and mother, and in 1857 purchased a home in New York. Harriet did wage work to provide for her family and for her trips back and forth to the south (Crewe, 2006). In the late 1850’s before the Civil War, Harriet was a large part of antislavery and black rights meetings. In these platforms she met others in her fight against slavery like Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, and she made her earnings to continue her journeys to the south and livelihood of her family (Larson,
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Harriet was born into slavery around 1820 and lived many years being beaten and whipped. As a young teen, Harriet had been hit in the head and was forever stricken with narcolepsy, episodes of sleep and unable to be awoken. During these episodes Harriet claimed to have visions and dreams given to her by God. As she got older her dreams showed her another land with green grass and flowers and white women opening their arms to her (Bradford, 1869). Then with Harriet’s master passing, the imminent future of her family being separated and sold, she fled for freedom in 1849. She went north and found the land her dreams had shown her, but there was still an emptiness. Harriet was free, but she didn’t have her family. From the time Harriet fled to time of the Civil War she made many trips and brought many slaves to Canada and freedom. She rescued most of her family, including her father and mother, and in 1857 purchased a home in New York. Harriet did wage work to provide for her family and for her trips back and forth to the south (Crewe, 2006). In the late 1850’s before the Civil War, Harriet was a large part of antislavery and black rights meetings. In these platforms she met others in her fight against slavery like Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, and she made her earnings to continue her journeys to the south and livelihood of her family (Larson,