Underground Railroad

“You’ll be free or die a slave!”(Americaslibrary.com) she was able to see what they were not and understood that if they went back then they would be tortured and bribed until they told her assailants where she was and discloses the route to the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman’s roll in history was not only that of a liberator, but also one of a fighter! In 1862 Tubman was recruited to be a spy for the Union Forces in the civil war amongst other militias and domestic careers. One year…

The book titled Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner examines in depth, as the name suggests, the Underground Railroad, but it also discusses the numerous abolitionist associations and the people, black and white, who conducted them. These abolitionist organizations and the Underground Railroad often went hand in hand with the abolitionist organizations assisting runaways and fugitives in their search for a new, better life either in the North or…

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” said…

Harriet Tubman was a slave. She was against slavery and wanted every African American free. She decided that one day she would become free. Since she worked closely by the Underground Railroad, she led the slaves to the Underground Railroad and freed them. Today she is known for her bravery and saving over 300 slaves in the late 1800’s. Harriet Tubman was born in 1820. She had 7 siblings and her parents, and they were also slaves. She started doing housework and caring for white children on…

the name of John Tubman. Though this didn’t change her slave status, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman(Background Essay). Throughout the years Harriet Tubman accomplished many things, but the thing that she is known for is working on the Underground Railroad(Document B). Harriet also took a total of 38 slaves…

The United States was built on slavery and our “Founding Fathers” overlooked the harsh cruelties of it’s nature to advance the developing country. Slavery was immoral , and had to come to an end , but this could not happen overnight . Overtime , people stood up and started to voice their opinions on abolishing slavery , these people were called abolitionist . In this time period , a man or woman would have to be extremely courageous to speak out against slavery, especially with the gag-rule ,…

escaped from her master’s plantation, in Maryland, in 1849, leaving behind her husband in hopes to find a better life for herself. According to Tubman herself, “ Mah people mus’ go free”, and so they did, as she became the lead conductor of the Underground Railroad. Subsequently, with the Fugitive Slave law coming into play, Harriet Tubman put herself in tremendous danger to free hundreds of slaves, but she believed in her cause and that what she was doing was necessary; that slaves were really…

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 freedom and that’s what she achieved, she took her life into her own hands challenging the system of slavery. Due to her…

the need to work together for the greater good of the situation. By remembering what these mean to readers, characters help portrays the human in someone and thus assert their own way of life to their peers. In Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad,…

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…