Harriet Tubm Conductor On The Underground Railroad

Imagine walking through the dark woods, through narrow paths and treacherous creeks on a cold December night without shoes or warm clothes. Throughout ten years, that’s what Harriet Tubman did. Harriet Tubman would help hundreds of slaves escape using the well-developed underground railroad. The underground railroad was a series of safehouses that strung along the route to Canada and not it’s actually underground or a railroad. Harriet Tubman was an American hero because she, worked as a nurse during the civil war, helped other enslaved American slaves escape and she inspired her cargo and led them to freedom.
First, Harriet Tubman helped countless of 54th Massachusetts volunteer soldiers and tended them to good health. According to Document

According to the story, “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad”, the author Ann Petry explains “They would certainly be pursued. Eleven of them. Eleven thousand dollars worth of flesh and bone and muscle that belonged to Maryland planters. Harriet Tubman was helping 11 slaves escape their plantation, if they were to be captured, the reward prize would be eleven thousand dollars. They are seen as a prize, the fugitives are being hunted for their flesh and bone, many bounty hunters were looking for the fugitives and Harriet Tubman made sure to be discrete about the escape route to Canada because Harriet knew it was pivotal for the escaped fugitives to not get caught. Despite all the obstacles during the route to freedom, Harriet led her cargo to Canada safely. According to the background essay “What Was Harriet Tubman's Greatest achievement”, it states “Over the next eleven years Harriet would return to the Eastern Shore and Vigina at least eight times to escort fugitive slaves to freedom.” Harriet for over eleven years, would escort slaves to freedom, making trips back and forth while a law called the Fugitive Slave Act was being enforced. This law would require Northerners to report and return escaped slaves. Even with this dangerous hurdle, Harriet still continued to help slaves escape. Harriet had now faced danger in the North and South, and if she were to be

According to the story, “Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad”, it states “Somehow she would have to instill courage into these eleven people, most of them strangers…”. When the shelter Harriet Tubman promised was rejecting fugitives, instead of feeding the fugitives with cornbread, milk or fried pork she needed to satisfy their hunger with hopes and dreams of freedom to motivate the fugitives to keep on going. Keeping the fugitives motivated wasn’t easy though, they were hungry and tired of walking hundreds of miles barefoot. Some even considered turning back, but Harriet insisted they keep on moving on the route to freedom. It was imperative that the fugitives and Harriet continued to move forward, otherwise if they got caught during the trip Harriet would have been hanged while the fugitives would’ve had to be shipped back to their plantations and sold to other slave owners. Harriet inspired her cargos to keep moving and, in the end, she finished the trip, and, in the end, the fugitives got their deserved freedom. To conclude, the route to freedom for Harriet’s cargo wasn’t easy, but with Harriets motivation she led her cargo to the road of freedom, liberty and justice for