Richard Aguilar
Ms. Hainline
SC History
1 March 2023
The Deed There was an important event that contributed to the freedom of black slaves 147 years ago, called the Underground Railroad. This important event took place in 1849, and it was led by a person that no one knows. However, almost everyone remembers one person, Harriet Tubman. She decided to run away from her dead slave owner when she was young, but she could not leave the rest of her family on the slave ground. She went back and this led to an underground railroad. The question is, why was the underground railroad her greatest achievement? As we know from the “What Was Harriet Tubman’s Greatest Achievement?” background essay, we know that Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 in Dorchester, Maryland, and was born into slavery. In 1844, she got married to a freed black man, but in 1849 her slave owner died, and she decided to escape. For the next eleven years, she would return to the Eastern shore to help free more slaves. Her main goal was to take the slave to Canada, where they would be sure that they would be free. All of this was part of a secret network known as the
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She had to go through a lot of stops and avoid people from detecting them. We can also see how many people she saved from the saved records thank to “Harriet Tubman’s Rescue Missions”, this chart shows that she save her family first and then went back to save others. We can see that she had 38 confirmed saves, but she also could have had more because they would not let all information out to keep their lives a secret. While they were running away they had to go through lots of risks like the babies that could have cried at any point of the trip and could have led them to get caught, so they decided to drug them to keep them asleep and