Have you ever heard of The Underground Railroad? Did you know that people helped slaves get to freedom by using the Underground Railroad? Harriet Tubman was one of these people who helped hundreds of slaves get to freedom. I think that Harriet Tubman was the most important during the Civil Rights Movement because she helped many slaves and also helped in the war. She also spent most of her life helping other slaves get to freedom. Harriet Tubman was important to history and Civil Rights because she helped hundreds of slaves get to freedom. On her last trip she saved many adults and a baby but used a sedative on the baby to make it stop crying and saved the group from getting caught. She acted quickly and if she didn’t, the group would have …show more content…
If she didn’t lead them to freedom, most of them would have been caught on their way to freedom. In conclusion, Harriet Tubman rescued hundreds of slaves from slavery by using the underground railroad and 100 years after her death she still serves as an example to those fighting for freedom. The idea of the organization of The Underground Railroad is to help the slaves get to the North by using the networks of The Underground Railroad. Escaped slaves from the South were secretly helped by sympathetic Northerners, in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Acts, to reach places of safety in the North or in Canada. They used their homes to hide the slaves from the people who hunted the slaves to get the slaves back. Harriet Tubman helped the most slaves get to freedom using the underground railroad networks. She led groups of slaves and helped them get to safe houses on their way to freedom in the north. The Underground Railroad worked through a loose network of formerly enslaved and free Black Americans, along with their white allies, thousands of enslaved Americans made their way north in the decades before the Civil War, moving sometimes surreptitiously, sometimes out in the open, on railways and ships, in wagons and freight, toward