Harriet Tubman And The Civil Rights Movement

According to law, civil rights are something that everyone is given. However, history has shown that this is not always the case. Everyday, people struggle to gain freedom and civil rights makes it possible to achieve this for all. As a result of Harriet Tubman’s actions, all people are entitled to equal rights. Harriet Tubman’s life made a great impact on the countries perspective of civil rights. Tubman helped create and conduct the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a network of African Americans and whites, who provided shelter and safety to escaped slaves. This was possible through a series of tunnels. These tunnels provided an easier escape for runaway slaves. Besides the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman served

Tubman was born into slavery so, she never knew anything else. She was brutally beaten and had to work long hours every day. Once she reached the age of 5, Harriet was hired out to take care of an infant for a rich family. According to my third source, “Every time the baby cried, the mistress, Miss Susan, would whip her around the neck. These scars would remain for the rest of her life.” Tubman was later taken out of this position because she was weak and malnourished. Two years later, Harriet was hired to collect muskrats from traps. After working this job for awhile she contracted measles and passed out in the middle of a workday. Tubman decided to keep working this job. Only, after she was better she was treated much differently. The mistress of this household was afraid Harriet would try to escape. So, she put her in a pigpen for 3 days. Tubman would be fed scraps of food and was only taken out for work. Harriet later left this job and began to work on a farm where she picked cotton and cleaned the house. This would not last long however because was she did not know was, there was a freedom called the Underground Railroad. Slaves on the farm would speak of this freedom every day according to my fourth source. So, one day Harriet escaped and was on her way to freedom. Her early life is what led her to escape and to take a stand. Tubman realized how civil rights was important through her experiences in

This was someone who would lead the slaves to freedom through the tunnels. Her mission was to rescue. On June 2nd, 1863, she led a group of 300 black soldiers up Combahee river to raid a Confederate camp. Once she and the soldiers reached the camp, they freed 800 slaves and destroyed all supplies. Before this specific event, she wanted to free only her family via the UGR. Only, she then realized how many other slaves needed help. Before she reached freedom with the member of the UGR she met up with her brothers, Harry and Ben. They noticed that they were being hunted with a $300 reward. So, they began to travel faster and once they reached the UGR, they traveled to Philly. In 1850 a fugitive slave law was created to have escaped slaves captured in the North and put back into slavery. This caused the Underground Railroad to be rerouted to Canada. This also meant that Harriet and her fellow conductors had to be more hidden when rescuing