“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and passion to reach for the stars to change the world”. Harriet Tubman impacted the citizens of the United States because she freed many fugitive slaves using the Underground Railroad, was a spy for the US army during the American Civil War, and was a leader in the abolitionist movement.The key to Tubman’s success was faith in God, intelligence, courage, planning, and determination. Harriet was born in Dorchester County, MD. She was born into a family of slavery with lots of brothers and sisters. She was the daughter of Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene. Edward Brodas, Harriet’s master, named her Araminta but she changed it to Harriet …show more content…
She first had to work in a hotel to earn a livelihood. For fugitive slaves to make their way North to freedom they used the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was made up of houses, barns, caves, and passageways. It was no longer safe for fugitive slaves to stay in the North so Tubman brought them to Canada. Her most successful rescue was her parents in 1857. Frightened Maryland slaveholders put a price of forty thousand dollars on her head. Tubman used anesthetic drugs to give to babies and carried a pistol to frighten fugitives and if they wanted to backout she gave them the choice of dieing on the spot or continuing. She wrote obscure messages and sang songs with hidden clues to announce her arrival. She later said “I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger”. Harriet met Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, and Thomas W. Higginson when she traveled to New England. She only got paid two hundred dollars for her work over a three year period. In 1859, Tubman spoke in the Fourth of July meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. She ended her slave rescuing days in