Harriet Tubman And The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad, a secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom, is an interesting section in the fight against slavery. The underground railroad was used in the 1800s. Many great leaders helped run and conduct this railroad. The Underground Railroad was a secret system that helped enslaved people go off to freedom, and explore the courage to overcome injustice. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 on Maryland’s eastern shore, where he was enslaved for twenty years. Frederick had a mistress who took him in as a slave, however, he thought that was dangerous, so he escaped. “I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong but dangerously so. (Douglass 268)” Douglass was a

Harriet Tubman was an operator of the Underground Railroad. She provided shelter and assistance along the route to help escaped slaves. Thousands of slaves escaped using the system. She traveled many times on the train to transport runaway slaves. “She had to take them all the way to Canada.”(Tubman 303) The railroad provided safe transportation to the North and Canada. There were some things that Harriet didn't tell the slaves she was running off to the North. However, she didn’t, “Harriet Tubman could have told them that there was far more involved in this matter of running off slaves than signaling the would-be runaways by imitating the call of a whippoorwill, or a hoot owl, far more involved than a matter of waiting for a clear night when the North star was visible.” (Tubman 302) She was keeping a lot of them because she knew Many slaves were caught, however, many were not. Most slave owners may have had obedient slaves because they were typically threatened. However, some believe that “You can own a man’s body, but you can't own his mind.”(Nelson 323) In the poem Not My Bones, the author says “You are not your body, you are not your