Compare And Contrast Grant And Harriet Tubman

Anytime you learn about history you always hear about the big people like Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant because they were the leaders on the north and south, but lets talk about the little people that made a huge difference such as Harriet Tubman and Mary Boykin Chesnut.
Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 in Maryland. She was an abolitionist, activist and one hell of a woman. She was mainly known as the conductor of the underground railroad where she made over 19 trips between the north and south in ten years while bringing hundreds of slaves to freedom. She started as a slave herself, working as a servant and working the fields for cotton, she got word that some of the slaves were going to be sold so she decided the best thing for her

“Frederick Douglass said, "Excepting John Brown -- of sacred memory -- I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than Harriet Tubman." John Brown also made the comment that Harriett Tubman was one of the bravest people on the continent. Harriett and John Brown became good friends where Harriett was able to be a part of anti-slavery meetings while brown told Harriett about his plans to go to Harpers Ferry. She worked for the union as a nurse, a cook and a spy all while she worked for the slaves of the south trying to bring them better opportunities and freedom. Harriett Tubman died in 1913 in Auburn,

She had a very up close and personal view of the political world of the confederacy, so you can only imagine the things she had wrote about in her journal. It ranged from the horrors of the war from stories that she had heard from other people, her opinions and her personal experiences like how hard it was to be a woman living in the south. As time went on the war got worse and the confederacy started to fail. Mary knew that if someone had gotten ahold of her diary she would be in a lot of trouble, so she moved to North Carolina to stay under the radar but continued writing. In April of 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered in Virgina ending the civil war. When everything started to simmer down Mary decided to go through her diaries and decided to publish them, but unfortunately, she was only able to publish one story in the Charleston Weekly News before her passing in 1886 from a heart attack.
After Mary’s death her work started to appear in the 1900s. The editors made some changes by removing information about the problems living in the south during the civil war. The diary also talked about the rights of southern woman, and how woman felt like they were living their own slavery because of male dominance. In 1981, Mary Chesnuts civil war was published inclosing all personal history of the