Essay On Harriet Tubman

The most influential African American Harriet Tubman's nickname was Moses because she never lost a single one of the slaves that she helped guide to freedom. Harriet Tubman is the most influential African American because she always wanted to help and care for people. Tubman accomplished many things in her life and was successful everything that she did was to help people. Tubman had ten siblings and she was the only one that did not get sold she stood with her parents. Harriet lived in Maryland which was close to Pennsylvania which did not allow slavery and that was where she wanted to go when her mother’s white master passed. Unfortunately, she waited too long after his death so she could not leave for Pennsylvania and stayed in Maryland.

Later in life, she explained her motive for her escape: I had reasoned this out in my mind: there were some of two things I had a right to Liberty or death; if I couldn't have one, I would have the other”. (Clinton) Throughout Tubman's escape, she knew she had a right and went and fought for it and helped others get it too. Once Tubman made it to Philadelphia she then join a large population of black people she was afraid because she knew that her leaving would be dangerous and that she could always go back to slavery which she then made her new identity which is where her name comes from she used her mothers name Harriet and kept her husband last name, Tubman. The Underground Railroad was

The civil war did not happen because of slavery but because of the issue of unions of states that had to come together to form the United States. Tubman worked as a spy for the north, she organized African American men to help the Union army with Union attacks. Outman states “ In another role, Tubman helped care for newly freed slaves, teaching some of the basic survival skills they would need as free men and women”. (Outman) even though she was helping with the civil war she never stopped helping freed slaves and continued to care for them. Throughout the war, she continued to gather services for several Union missions. Commire says that “ After Tubman spies ascertained the location of Confederate torpedoes in the water she was invited to join the forces on a mission to take up the torpedoes destroy the railroads and bridge, free slaves, and cut off Confederate supply routes”. (Commire) which was then given credit for leading the operation. Even though Tubman helped the military she did not receive any type of wages and she was also denied military benefits because she had no formal position within the Union and also because she was a woman. In the civil war, Harriet Tubman not only helped with missions but was also a nurse. Tubman served as a nurse in the hospital camps in coastal South Carolina. Clinton states Soldiers who were treated with her herbal remedies credited her with