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that I was hopefully going to escape the austere setting that I have lived in, and finally find the freedom that I have longed for all my life. “Who are the children dressed in blue, they must be the ones who made it through.” (Slave Songs) Harriet Tubman and other slaves working…

Melanise Otis Research Paper November 30th, 2015 Professor Kelley Harriet Tubman Who was Harriet Tubman and what were her accomplishments? Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist and humanitarian. During the American Civil War, she served as a nurse and a Union spy. Born a slave on Maryland’s eastern shore, in Dorchester County. She was born to enslave parents and her original name was Araminta Harriet Ross. Her mother, Harriet “Rit” Green, was owned by Mary Pattison Brodes and her…

slaves were Harriet Tubman and Willam Still . “When Northern towns rallied around freed slaves and refused compensation, yet another brick was set into the foundation of southern secession .Tubman is sometimes referred to as the Moses of her people because of the way she led them out of slavery”(http://www.ushistory.org/us/28c.asp) The underground railroad was the most effective escape…

skin. Harriet tubman grew up a slave, while she was a slave she was beaten. As soon as she got out of slavery she had decided she did not want the future generations to go through the same. She decided to go into the army and become a nurse and a spy, she did this because she knew land and she wanted to help end the war. Harriet Tubman proves herself to be a hero by saving thousand of people from slavery, serving in the war and maintaining hope when times are hard. Harriet is…

town in Maryland gathering together waiting for the conductor, Harriet Tubman. Soon they’d be walking through the Underground Railroad. It was evening and they slaves, had to keep hidden from the owners Patti and William Wilson. They had seen the an eye catching poster hung up on a black neighborhood wall, and they had been able to escape their torturous ‘homes’. Right now there were about 63 people already grouped together. Araminta Harriet Ross was up front waiting and welcoming for some more…

leader I mean some people are just born to be a leader. Really anyone can be a leader from a boy or to a girl, anyone, There is one particular person I would like focus on, and that is Harriet Tubman. Now Harriet showed great leadership in the development of our country. She went over and beyond what she had to do. Harriet was a slave who escaped at a very young age and even though she escaped, she came back to help the other slaves…

Harriet Tubman was a pretty stellar woman. She escaped slavery, helped others escape slavery, and helped the abolitionist movement. She is honestly one of the most amazing women to ever roam this earth. Harriet ended up having visions telling her that she needed to be free. Earlier in her life her father taught her about the woods and such, so with this knowledge she escaped. One Saturday night she took her brothers and left. They were escaping. Not too far in her brothers fled out of fear,…

Not everyone has what it takes, but those that do sure do deliver. Gender, age, and even race doesn't determine your qualification to become a real-world hero. Real world heroes save people and help others no matter what the consequences are. Harriet Tubman was an African American slave who escaped and went on to help her fellow slaves' escape with her through the underground railroad. Although the underground railroad was just a system of…

five foot woman (“Harriet Tubman” Biography in Context, 2004) leads a group of slaves between the trees of a thick forest. With footsteps quiet as a mouse, they creep through the undergrowth. They are on the way to freedom, but for now, they are looking for a specific house just parallel to the wide line of trees. The leader of the group carries a rifle (Maxwell, Biography in Context, 1996) in her right hand, as she listens intently for any signs of slave-catchers. Her name was Harriet Tubman,…

Stuart Mill and Liberty” John Stuart Mill was one of the leading philosophers in the Victorian Age of England. Mill believed in Liberalism where society was best served by the maximum number of people being free with minimal government. He was born into a comfortable home in London in 1806 in a time when the Industrial Revolution was transforming England. Mill had no formal education and practiced no religion but was was schooled at home in order to become a perfect utilitarian. This led…