Moses was someone in the Bible who led the Israelites out of slavery and parted the Red Sea to escape from the Egyptians who enslaved them. Harriet Tubman was also like this because she helped many African American slaves escape the white people who enslaved them. Harriet Tubman was a major impact to the abolitionist movement because of her contributions to the movement, the challenging struggles she faced, and by inspiring many others. Harriet Tubman was born and raised as a slave. When she was about twenty seven years old, she decided to escape slavery to the north with the help of a kind woman who told her about the underground railroad. After she escaped, she decided to go back and help others escape, including her family and friends. She …show more content…
No one said she had to do what she did, she chose to. In Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad, in chapter 22, page 241, it says, “In many ways she represented the end of an era, the most dramatic, and the most tragic, era in American history. Despite her work as a nurse, a scout, and a spy, in the Civil War, she will be remembered longest as the conductor on the Underground Railroad, the railroad to freedom-a short, indomitable woman, sustained by faith in a living God, inspired by the belief that freedom was a right all men should enjoy, leading bands of trembling fugitives out of Tidewater Maryland.” This is the end of the book and it sums up the main points of her life, showing the inspiration and memory she left. She resembles freedom and will forever as time goes on. She inspired people back then and still does today. Ultimately, Harriet Tubman was a major impact to the abolitionist movement because she was very brave and inspiring for her contributions to the abolitionist movement, especially because she faced many obstacles, and still never gave