Harriet Tubman
Some people call her the “Moses of the Underground Railroad”. Her name was Harriet Tubman. After she herself escaped slavery, she assisted many other slaves to do the same. Harriet Tubman had a good family, an interesting early life, escaped slavery on her own, and helped many others to escape slavery by building the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman’s family was like many other slave families. According to the textbook History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism, Harriet Tubman, “had been born into slavery in eastern Maryland, sometime around 1820.” This means that Tubman was born into slavery. She had 10 other siblings that were also born into slavery. Her family also consisted of two parents that couldn’t be legally married at the time. Many slave familes had children that were born into slavery. The children were expected to grow up and work on the plantations that they were born on.
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According to the article of Harriet Tubman, she was first a house slave at the age of seven to take care of white children, but later became a field hand. She had been whipped as a teenageer working in the fields. Like many other slaves, Harriet Tubman worked in fields. She also had the opportunity to work in a house which was a much better working condition for a slave. Tubman was a hard worker and lived her early life as a slave.
There came a point in Tubman’s life that she was desperate to escape. According to the book Moses When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Harriet Tubman left her husband and family to get to freedom. She also stayed with people that could have turned her in, so she had to have a lot of trust in the poeple that she stayed with. Harriet Tubman had to leave everything she owned and everything she loved to have freedom. Tubman had to do a lot of hiding from slave hunters and from blood hounds to make her way the