Harrison Phillips Mrs. Ragusky DBQ Essay March 7th, 2024. “To succeed in your mission, you must have a single-minded devotion to your goal”. This is a famous quote said by APT Abdul Kalam, but it applied rather well to someone else. That person is Harriet Araminta Ross Tubman, an American abolitionist. She was born into slavery in Maryland on March 10, 1822. She grew up doing physical labor for her master. When she was old enough, she married a black man. Eventually, her master died, which led her to make the biggest decision of her life. She decided that “there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other”(Harriet Tubman). And so, Tubman decided to escape. She had to travel 120 miles on foot to get to Philadelphia, …show more content…
During the Civil War, she acted as a spy and headed up a team of black spies that would go behind enemy lines and rescue slaves. She also tried to nurse soldiers back to health. After the war, Tubman cared for old and decrepit people until she died in 1913. Out of all of these achievements, though, the greatest accomplishment of Harriet Tubman was her work as a spy; the reasons for this being: the amount of risk in that line of work, the impact she had, and the difficulties she faced when doing this. Harriet Tubman's role as a spy was her greatest accomplishment because of the risk, impact, and difficulty of the job. For example, Document C says that Tubman was going to head up a team of black spies that would provide intelligence for Union raids and take part in one of them herself. She