My brother pushes the limits by eating too many beans at dinner; Harriet Tubman pushes her limits by running the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland around 1822. When she grew older, she later married a free black man. Even though she didn't gain freedom, she changed her first and last name. After her master died, she chose to escape to the North where she could be free. It was a 120-mile journey up to Philadelphia. She then decided to go back to free other slaves, including her family. During the Civil War, she also worked as a spy to help rescue slaves and care for old and disabled people in need. She had many great achievements, but Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievement was being a conductor on the Underground …show more content…
Because she brought lots of enslaved fugitives to freedom, she conducted over 100 miles each trip north, and the amount of risk she took saving the people she cared about. Leading many people up north to freedom on the Underground Railroad is her greatest achievement for multiple different reasons. In a chart of Harriet Tubman’s rescue missions, there are 38 people she rescued, not counting all of her probable trips that were kept a secret. She brought all of those people, who were a lot of her family, from the south, mostly from Dorchester (her hometown), up to Canada and Philadelphia (Document B). This points out how many people and families she saved on the Underground Railroad. The impact she had on the lives of the enslaved people was spectacular. A picture of the routes the Underground Railroad took shows that the length of the trip they took from Dorchester to Philadelphia was around 125 miles long (Document A). This highlights the amount of dedication, time, and effort she put into taking people on these trails. Tubman could have spent her time when she was a free woman doing things she never got to do when she was enslaved, but chose not to. She instead spent her time helping others get to freedom on the