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    serving in the war and maintaining hope when times are hard. Harriet is mostly known for he job in the underground railroad saving thousands of slaves. One of her most famous quotes was “I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they were slaves - Harriet Tubman”. This quote shows that she helped many people. She thinks that through the underground railroad she could have saved many more if they knew that they were slaves. A Lot of people back then were…

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    Alondra and Mallory It was the beginning of November in Maryland 1853. Emala Knight, a thirteen year old was crossing the Underground Railroad with her mother Catherine, her 7 year old sister Samantha, and her 4 year old brother Karter. They were at the edge of 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…

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    Now you might ask what leadership is, what does it take to be a leader, who can be a leader. Well leadership can be defined in many different ways, some people might say it’s when you’re the leader of something, or others might say it’s when you show that you’re in control. Really it doesn’t take much to be a 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…

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    A Real World Hero

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    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…

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    Who Is Harriet Tubman?

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    the journey, in which then she told them, “You'll be free or die,” because if they returned to the plantation, the slave-owners would gather more information about the Underground…

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin Thesis

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    Words have incredible power. Harriet Beecher Stowe strung together thousands of words to create a piece of literature that would rock the nation. In the 1800s, slavery was expanding all over the nation, primarily in the South. Although there were several statutes and laws to regulate the activity of slavery, it was still trapping thousands of people in inhumane circumstances. Needless to say, Harriet Beecher Stowe would soon shed some light on the topic and reveal the human costs of slavery.…

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    The Underground Railroad was a network of people during the 19th century who aided in the escape of enslaved African Americans from the south safely make their way to the northern states or Canada. It consisted of predominantly free slaves, abolitionists, and many whites. Slaves were smuggled into the northern states either through false “free papers” to board a boat or train or by being shipped in freights. The Underground Railroad was not underground or an actual railroad, it received its name…

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    Harriet Tubman, the famous Underground Railroad “conductor”, escaped from slavery in the South to become the most well-known abolitionist of the 19th century. She was born in Eastern Maryland around 1820, in which she was forced to start her life as a slave. In 1849, she was able to escape from slavery in fear that she was going to be sold. Following the North Star by foot and with the help of many white abolitionists, she was able to make her way to Philadelphia where she is able to find work…

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    sought out Canada in the pursuit of freedom. She helped bring over 700 slaves from the United States. Even with her life at risk, she bravely put her own life at risk for the freedom of the oppressed. At the peak of her career as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, plantation owners put a bounty of $40,000 for her death. Even then, Tubman was never captured and remains one of the greatest Canadian African-American female inspirations to this…

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    tried to stop Harriet, for example: bounties, and the Fugitive Slave Law, but no matter what-Harriet succeeded. In her life, she was mostly supported by friends, family, and herself. There is one thing left to say, “She was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and she could say what most conductors can’t say: She never ran her ‘train’ off the track, and she never lost a passenger”…

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