Why Is Harriet Tubman Important

“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.” This was a quote that Harriet Tubman once said to herself. She was also one of the most effective person on fighting for human rights. Cesar Chavez was also important to changing human rights.
Harriet Tubman and Cesar Chavez should always be thought about when talking about leaders that fought for human rights. Cesar Chavez was a great leader for the strike that led to improvement to farm work. Also, Harriet Tubman saved slaves and helped them escape slavery and to a new better life. In the story of Harriet Tubman, using the underground railroad and using the aid of the north star, she helped the slaves escape from the horrible conditions they lived in.On the …show more content…
She was born in Maryland and as a slave. She went through brutal and harsh experiences. The sentence “Born a slave on Maryland’s eastern shore, she endured the harsh existence of a field hand, including brutal beatings.” says the text. Harriet Tubman escaped in 1849 to find a route and came back for her family and many others. In the text it said,”she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves.” Not only did she save the slaves and lead many slaves to freedom, she also did not lose a single slave on the way. Here it says “And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she never lost a single passenger." Harriet Tubman could have died saving the slaves but she put herself before others and helped them anyways. She did a more effective change during her time because she would be leading the slaves to freedom back and forth meanwhile when Cesar Chavez was doing his protest and people were still suffering with their work and being taken back to