Underground Operations

this out in my mind: There was two thing I had a right liberty 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…

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 name Harriet Tubman inextricably linked to the Underground Railroad, the network of secret safe houses and safe routes that were used by enslaved Africans in the United States to escape to freedom in states without slavery or to Canada. The iconic image of Tubman is of her staring straight ahead, her piercing eyes looking directly at a hypothetical camera without the trace of a smile, frozen in time. However, other interpretation and depiction of this iconic figure exists and it on display…

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 single passenger." Just…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the year of 1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a famous author and an abolitionist. She was also in a group full of people that despised slavery and slave catchers. In the book she described the sin of slavery and tried to convince many people to stand up and stop slavery. The book, published in 1852 sold over 300,000 copies in just the first year. It became even more popular and sold over two million copies in the first ten years after…

It’s not rare for Uncle Tom’s Cabin to be assigned to English students as part of a certain project in the curriculum. While this is all well and good, many of those students do not research the author of the book they may be reading outside of the classroom. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, during her years, was not simply an author; but a significant historical symbol of the American Civil War. Her actions and writings influenced the zeitgeist of the era, and ignited a…

Abolitionist view slavery in a whole different perspective than whites did. Sinning against the nation, whites were tearing these innocent humans down for their benefit and abolitionist would not stand for such acts. Frederick Douglass had strong view on slavery and disapproved of all the treatment given out to such innocent people. In Douglass’s speech, in 1894 he stated, “”To deny education to any people is one of the greatest crimes against human nature. It is to deny them the means of…

Imagine a plane thirty-six thousand feet in the air about to land in the city of Denver, Colorado. The plane circles the Denver International Airport and the passengers look down at the interestingly shaped runways as the plane is cleared to land. After the smooth landing, the passengers exit the plane to gather their luggage and go about their business in the city. Taking note of the artistic murals on the walls as they walk, passengers move along in a hurry to get where they are going, as they…

Created in 1968 and running until 2016, Zap Comix was a ground-breaking and defying comic book that defied convention and societal law (Comic Code) it became a model for the Comix movement. A comic that has evolved with the ages taking a progressive and often regressive stance on ‘hot topics’ of the time. In Zap Comix Issue 1 Crumb describes himself as a ‘raving lunatic’ through the use of self-caricatures in this case; Flakey Foont and Mr. Natural. Showing from the get-go Crumb wasn’t one to…

spreading to all areas of the world. Reggaetón originated from the underground scene of Puerto Rico’s urban life, combining Puerto Rican hip hop with Jamaican dancehall. In Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s, book Remixing Reggaetón Rivera-Rideau discusses the cultural politics of race in Puerto Rico, focusing on Reggaetón as a critique of Puerto Rico’s “racial democracy.” At the start of this book, Rivera-Rideau focuses on Puerto Rico’s underground music scene as a culmination of the African Diaspora…