Notes from Underground

She had the good fortune to make acquaintances such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr., all of whom were or would soon be important figures in the abolitionist movement. She gained permission from President Lincoln to create reform camps and counsel African American people who had recently left the life of slavery to become free. She also helped recruit troops for the Union Army, using her camps as a way to persuade men to volunteer and serve…

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…

Freedom Quilts Are the Freedom Quilts real? Two historians say African American slaves may of used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named wagon wheel, tumbling blocks, and bear paws appear to have contained secret messages that helped direct slaves to freedom. The code "was a way to say something to a person in the presence of many others without the others knowing," "It was a way of giving direction without saying, 'Go northwest.'" The seamstress would…

Harriet Tubman’s life. Harriet Tubman is an important person, because of her actions during the era of slavery. She was able escape from chains slavery, and Fugitive Slave Acts. Harriet risked her life by going to back in forth into the south to rescue her family members and others that were enslaved. Harriet was able rescue the enslaved people with the help of the Underground Railroad. She was a revolutionary; she risked her life numerous times in order to help other people escape. She wanted…

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 she could help other slaves get out. She helped save over a hundred slaves from their masters. She took…

Harriet Tubman is known for her proactive role in the Underground Railroad. However, most people don 't know much detail about her life. Her childhood, head injury, escape, and actions during the Civil War are also important aspects of her life. She was born under the name Araminta "Minty" Ross. Both of her parents were slaves. Her mother, Harriet "Rit" Green, was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess, and later on by her son Edward. Anthony Thompson owned Araminta 's father, Ben Ross. Mr.…

The Underground Railroad was a large network of people, they helped the fugitive slaves escape to the North and Canada. It was not run by one person or one organization, when actually it consisted of many individuals who had limited knowledge of the whole operation. The idea began near the end of the eighteenth century when George Washington complained one of his slaves escaped by the help of “a society of Quakers, formed for such purposes.” Around 1831 it was dubbed the Underground Railroad for…

Good rock albums have the ability to energize you. They grab listeners’ attention and make them rethink what music can be. Here are just 10 of the top rock albums of all time, which have furthered the genre and subsequent subgenres, and inspired other artists to pick up a guitar and jam. Number Ten: Fleetwood Mac, ‘Rumors’ Fleetwood Mac’s second major label album, Rumours saw the recently reformed band at their most emotionally raw. Featuring such hits as “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way,” many…

Government Action Economists estimate the size of the underground economy at somewhere between 8 percent and 14 percent of total GPD, which could amount to as much as $2 trillion worth of economic activity. Authorities in California say off-the-books transactions cost the state $6.5 billion in lost tax revenue every year. If the trend is similar throughout the U.S. economy, that would amount to roughly $50 billion in lost tax revenue for all 50 states combined, plus an even bigger chunk that…

Uncle Tom's Cabin is universally acknowledged that Uncle Tom's Cabin has another name --- Life Among the Lowly. Once, President Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe by saying that "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” This book expresses the slavery's life under the influence of temporal society. In people’s mind, African American slaves were squalid. As a result, they treat them surlily and opprobriously. Uncle Tom's Cabin implied the Civil War in…