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Harriet Tubman Thesis

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Abraham Lincoln first took office as the sixteenth president of the United States on March 4th, 1861. During this time period, slavery had caused a division between the country. The environment of the south encouraged farming which required manual labor. African slaves satisfied this need by providing free manual labor against their will. Although the south believed in slavery, the north believed that every man was created equal. This complex debate generated a war over slavery that would tear the country apart. Three months prior to taking office, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Shortly after, it was joined by all of the other states in the Deep South, creating the Confederate States of America which included: South Carolina, Mississippi, …show more content…

It was a complicated network consisting of secret safe houses and routes. These individuals were usually southerners who were opposed to slavery. Fugitive slaves would travel from safe house to safe house until they reached free land, either a free state or Canada. However, those who arrived in Canada did not have to fear the Fugitive Slave Act. This act stated that any southern slaveholders had the right to use weapons in order to capture their slaves that had managed to escape into free states. Harriet Tubman, a former slave, was strongly involved in the Underground Railroad. After escaping slavery herself, she helped about three hundred slaves escape from the south. In order to achieve freedom, Tubman required these slaves that they can not turn back. If they attempt to go back to slavery because they were afraid, she would shoot them because they would not only be putting themselves, but also her into …show more content…

During his presidency, he encountered many challenges revolving around the American Civil War. Throughout this time period, there was a push for the immediate emancipation of slavery, known as the Abolitionist Movement. In addition, the Underground Railroad was ran by abolitionists that wanted to help fugitive slaves gain freedom. During the war, Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, temporarily banning slavery in southern states at war. Lastly, after the war, Lincoln created the Thirteenth Amendment which was passed by Congress, abolishing slavery. Although Abraham Lincoln wasn't an abolitionist, he played a significant role in abolishing slavery in America by establishing the Emancipation Proclamation and forming the Thirteenth

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During Abraham Lincoln’s presidency at the start of the 1860, an issue that had divided the nation was slavery. Lincoln’s election to presidency as a republic was not received well by the Southern slave states, as they thought that as a republican he was out to abolish slavery. In an effort to calm southern states and keep them from seceding from the United States, he attempts to ease them with his First Inaugural Address. In his First Inaugural Address his key points are to clam southern leaders of slave states, keep the states from seceding, and make them at ease as he enters presidency.

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You can see this in Document B, wherein 1858 Lincoln says this: “I have no purpose . . . to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists . . .” Later on in the same document he also states, “There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights . . . in the Declaration of Independence- the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” While Lincoln was running for president, he promised to leave slavery alone in the South, but he also stays true to his personal morals through his time, that slavery

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How likely would it be that a slave returns to save and help people in risk of their own freedom? Araminta Ross or Harriet Tubman was one of the unlikely heroes who did so. She was born a slave in year 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland, and lived in the fear of being separated from her other family members. At least two of her sisters had faced had faced this fate. Slaves were needed from Maryland’s Eastern Shore from the rise of cotton fields and pressure to provide grew.

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Tubman is most notoriously known as an abolitionist, her activism and efforts as a conductor on the Underground Railroad would have been enough to merit putting her on the $20, but she was also a nurse, recruiter, scout and a spy for the Union Army. She was the first woman to lead an armed raid during the Civil War. Harriet Tubman did not fight for capitalism, free trade, or competitive markets. She repeatedly put herself in the line of fire to free people who were treated as currency themselves. She risked her life to ensure that enslaved black people would know they were worth more than the blood money that exchanged hands to buy and sell them.

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Vu Pham Professor Sunshine McClain History 170 May 22, 2016 Abraham Lincoln Does Not Deserve To be The Great Emancipator Abolition of slavery was a big controversy in the United State of America in the nineteenth century due to the different stances between northern and southern states which led to the American Civil war. At the present time, Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States who supported the north (Union) thought that free the slave could help him united all the states. As the result, he passed out the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, which give freedom to slaves in the states that the Union did not control. After the war, he issued the Thirteenth Amendment on December 6, 1865, to free all slaves.

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Garrett claimed to have helped 2,750 fugitives get to safety in Canada. Because slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834, Ontario and surrounding areas such as Fort Malden became the goal end point for runaway slaves. Nearly 30 slaves per day were crossing the Great Lakes into Canada during the time. Once fugitives got into the Northern states it was still not safe at all which is why they had to keep traveling until reaching the country’s

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This is where she first encountered the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, however, it was a large organization of people who helped fugitive slaves escape. However, this was not her last interaction with the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman went on to be one of the most well known Underground Railroad conductors. She saved over seventy people from slavery and with this act she changed countless lives.

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Why Harriet Tubman is a Hero Harriet Tubman was born in Dorechester County, Maryland.1820-1825. The exact date or her birth is unknown. Harriet being born as a slave had a huge impact on what she would do later in her life. All through her life, she showed heroism.

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This is what Harriet Tubman said about her time working with the Underground Railroad. "I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger." (“Harriet Tubman” Contemporary Black Biography). Harriet Tubman was a former slave and during her early 20’s she became free. She contributed to the underground railroad, and helped save over 300 slaves by bringing them from the South to the North.

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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” -Abraham Lincoln. As this quote says, our ancestors’ intention for this land was that all humans would be treated the same way; equal. But this world didn’t end up like they wanted.

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Daniel Madrigal Mrs. Clark Period 2 26 April 2016 Harriet Tubman Biography Intro: Abolition is the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution. Being an abolitionist was important because you contributed to the cause of stopping slavery. Harriet Tubman was a very influential abolitionist because she would risk her life to come and rescue slaves and take them to the underground railroad where they would go to the north and become free. Early Life:

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Your skin screams; beat me, starve me, work me to death and rape me. Is it your fault? No, but that doesn’t matter because society is ugly. Your skin will speak before your lips even more, it is your only judgement. In the early 1800’s and long before if you were not White, you were just another paper floating through the air.

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One such slave was Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was One of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad. She rescued over 300 slaves over the course of eleven years. Tubman was born a slave in the early 1820’s, originally named Araminta Harriet Ross until after marriage. When she was a slave, she endured the inhumanity of repeated lashings and beatings.

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Harriet Tubman and Maya Angelou have many things in common, including the theme of never giving up in difficult times in their lives. Maya Angelou returned from her mother’s house once depressed, she wouldn't talk to anyone. She fought through this tough time through reading, which showed the theme of never giving up. Harriet Tubman a woman many traits but her best was never giving no matter what came her way. In many ways these woman are one in the same.

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“I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory over everything, the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.” Araminta Ross once said. Ross is also known as, Harriet Tubman. She escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist.

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