Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was a beautiful and strong African American. She is known for helping slaves to escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad. She escaped slavery in the 1849. The Underground Railroad was a route where fugitive slaves escape to the north and get to Canada. By having the Underground Railroad was help plan to help slaves become free. Now Harriet Tubman is an important figure in Africa American history. Harriet Tubman birth name was Araminta Ross. She was born in March 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet was the eleventh child between her parents Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. He parents were full-blooded African American believed to be Ashanti, a West African warrior people. Her family lived as slaves on the…

Fatal error! Harriet Tubman helped save over three hundred men and women, who were slaves, get to freedom by traveling through the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was an extremely important person who risked her life for countless people. She traveled in all sorts of harsh conditions just to bring those she loved, and plenty more, to freedom. Harriet Tubman was a very important progressive woman who changed our society greatly by standing up for what's right, helping others when she didn’t…

Harriet Tubman was an extraordinary female hero; she escaped from slavery yet she returned to slave states to free about three hundred slave throughout her adulthood. From early childhood leading to the day of her escape, Harriet experienced frequent hardships while serving wealthy plantation owners. However, when she became a free woman, she journied on expeditions into the heart of slave territory and onced served Abraham Lincoln by spying on the confederates. Harriet Tubman led an…

the world.’’ When it comes to heroes, Harriet Tubman and Cesar Chavez are both great people to think about. Harriet Tubman saved the slaves, including herself, from captivity. Also, Cesar Chavez fasted as a protest for the farm workers who were dying from not getting enough money to live on. The story of Harriet and the underground railroad followed by the north star was about how Harriet saved slaves from suffering. The story of Cesar was about how he improved farm workers’ lives. these two…

Harriet Tubman is being honored with an award for her bravery. She showed her bravery in the Civil War and when she helped with The Underground Railroad. Harriet showed that she was very brave when she was a spy for the Union in the Civil War. Before she was a spy for the Union she was a slave who escaped. Then she came back to where her family was and helped them escape. She was also known as the best “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. When she helped her family escape she realized that…

One very prominent African American person that lived during the 1800's was Harriet Tubman she made a big impact for enslaved African's she helped in numerous ways and she is still vividly remembered today. She will be forever remembered for her actions, what she did was very inspiring and wonderful. She had achievements that could be beyond the reach of some people. She was a jack of all trades when it came to her and her achievements, she was a humanitarian, a participant in women's suffrage,…

and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive”(Harriet Tubman: Quote...). Harriet Tubman is a hero because of her involvement with the underground railroad and her slave life. When Araminta was about 5 or 6 when she began working as a house servant. From a very young age she was determined to gain her freedom. She spent little time living with Brodess, he often hired her out temporary masters, some of whom who were cruel and negligent. When she was…

Harriet Tubman was born in December 1820 in Dorchester, Maryland. Growing up she had a very harsh and brutal childhood; both of her parents were enslaved. Her mother, Harriet “Rit” Green, was owned by master Mary Pattison Brodess. Her father, Ben Ross, was owned by Master Anthony Thompson. Both masters became a married couple. Mary Brodess’ son sold three of Harriet’s sisters too far away plantations to serve within the family. Harriet was thought of and viewed as stupid. Physical violence was a…

You might be a hero to a sibling even to a friend but this hero is known for her heroic actions. Harriet Tubman was born 1860 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, which is series of tunnels that lead to safe houses and was used in the 19th century. The railroad lead to Canada so the slaves would be able to be free, since Canada didn’t have slaves. Harriet made 19 trips to the South and rescued 300 slaves. “Never lost a single passenger”…

The leader I chose is Harriet Tubman, she led hundreds of people safely away from slavery. Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland.On the month of March, in the year of 1822. She had very little education she wasn’t aloud to have been educated. Her job was to show slaves the underground railroad so they could be free. Somethings to know about Harriet. Harriet earned the nickname "Moses" after the prophet Moses in the Bible who led his people to freedom. In all of her journeys she "never lost a…