Harriet Tubm Conductor On The Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman, born in Maryland back in 1822, grew up enslaved. Tubman, her 8 siblings, and parents had to fight to keep the family together, as most of the time slavery caused the usually permanent splitting of families. As she grew up, Tubman learned how to hunt, work in the fields, and gather wood. Due to slavery, she never learned how to read or write, but she was still very smart, bold, and understood things well. In 1849, Tubman successfully escaped to Philadelphia. Even though she was free, she would become the conductor of the famous Underground Railroad, an operation that helped fugitives escape North to be free. Harriet Tubman chose to go back to Maryland 13 times to rescue slaves. She was not once caught during these 13 missions.

The first issue is that Tubman was leading the fugitives to somewhere brand new to her. According to the biography Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad, “She had never been in Canada. The route beyond Philadelphia was strange to her.” Tubman relied on the skills she learned growing up to guide her in the right direction. She never once gave up or lost a member, despite the random obstacles thrown at her. Also, as told in the story A Beacon of Resilience and Love: Harriet Tubman, “Despite the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, over the next decade, Tubman returned to Maryland’s Eastern shore 13 times.” The Fugitive Slave Act, or FSA, is the act that required all runaways to be captured and returned. This meant that many slave owners would be searching for Tubman and the people that accompanied her, making the journey 10 times more dangerous. Tubman put herself at the risk of being enslaved again, or possibly killed, to save those who had to suffer in enslavement like her. She persevered through any challenge thrown at her and put in all her effort to ensure the job was well done. The actions taken by Tubman were a major contribution to the abolitionist

People in the North heard about her journey in bringing fugitives to the North so that they would be free. Said in the story, A Beacon of Resilience and Love: Harriet Tubman, “Harriet Tubman dedicated her life to compassion and equality, from freeing enslaved people to advocating for women’s suffrage.” While others had already realized the cruel allowance of slavery, Tubman’s actions lit the spark that was the movement to get rid of slavery, and she would continue to fight for this her entire life. A little while after Tubman’s death, a National Historical Park would be built in Auburn, New York to commemorate her life’s work and achievements, as well as explain the story of how she was a big inspiration to the abolitionist movement. A Harriet Tubman blog on the website nationalparks.org says, “As one of the best-known “conductors” of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman showed how someone can leave an inspiring legacy of love, sacrifice, and perseverance.” Through Tubman’s success on the Underground Railroad, people were able to hear her story, which set the realization that a change needs to