Then, when Tubman was eight, she was hired to another household as a maid. One day while her masters were arguing she took a lump of sugar, and when her mistress found out, Tubman, out of fear hid in the pigpen for three days. When Tubman turned twelve, she was put to work in the fields. She preferred physical work over household work where she was bossed around. One day when Tubman was at a grocery store, she saw a fugitive slave hiding in the store.
Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland and she died on March 10, 1993 in Auburn, New York. Just like Douglass Tubman was born into slavery, but she escaped and she managed to help 70 other enslaved people escape. Harriet helped abolish slavery by going to states that still had slaves and helped the enslaved slaves escape. Tubman was also the Underground Railroad Conductor, she led the slaves up north where there was no slavery and that allowed the former slaves to officially be
Many states had a bounty offered to anyone her capture dead or alive because she was a fugitive slave and was breaking the law in slave states because she was helping other slaves escape to freedom in the north. Tubman made 19 trips to Maryland and helped 300 people to
During her journey, she displayed characteristics such as courage, persistence, and great discipline. To this day, it is told that Tubman never lost a single figurative while leading them to freedom. She also contributed to the movement by being active in the civil war. According to “Harriet Tubman by way.org”, when the civil war began she started her work as a cook and a nurse and overtime made her way up to an armed scout and spy. The last way she intervened with the movement, according to “National Museum of African American History and Culture” was by becoming the first ever woman to lead an armed expedition in the war.
“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other,” is what Harriet Tubman thought to herself as she was getting ready to escape from slavery (BGE). Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross around 1822, as they did not track the birth date of enslaved people (BGE). She was born into slavery, and at the age of 5 was hired out to do child-care (BGE). At 27 years old, she decided that she would escape slavery, escaping on foot, only traveling when the skies were dark enough to see stars. She followed north-south traveling streams and rivers to help her reach freedom.
Once free, she became an operator of the Underground Railroad — a secret network of people, places and routes that provided shelter and assistance to escaping slaves. She courageously returned to Maryland at least 13 times over the course of a decade to rescue her parents, brothers, family members, and friends, guiding them safely to freedom.” Tubman became an operator of the underground railroad guiding and saving many slaves from enslavement through carefully made routes to a safe space where the slaves could live free and out of danger. She did this for many years, soon having to change her route from New York to Canada. According to the article, Harriet Tubman, it says, “Over the course of 11 years, Tubman rescued over 70 slaves from Maryland, and assisted 50 or 60 others in making their way to Canada.
Tubman led some 300 African Americans out of slavery in the South (Kranz). A runaway slave herself, Tubman went back to the South time and again to help other southern slaves go north to freedom
She eventually escaped to Philadelphia in 1849 because her owner died. Tubman said “ When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. 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.” Because she was freed and knew her family was still enslaved, she made use of the Underground Railroad. Harriet explicitly said, “ I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the
Along with other abolitionists she worked in the Union Army to help slaves travel to the north once they came behind Union lines. During the Civil War Tubman spent nearly two and one-half years in the Sea Island area of South Carolina. The Sea Islands were later controlled in December 1861. With the working occupation by Union forces and freeing the slaves led to the use of black troops and to the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. With Harriet’s bravery, determination, and accomplishments, Massachusetts Governor John Andrew ordered a secret mission for Harriet to serve as a spy for Union troops.
Through the 1850 Harriet Tubman returned to the south to help a total of 300 slaves or more. In 1838 Frederick Augustus Bailey and his wife escaped from slavery. They began working against slavery. Frederick never gave up on his work for civil rights. Frederick even urged President Lincoln to end slavery.
Harriet Tubman spent most of her life trying to help slaves. She was a slave herself, she was born in Dorchester Country, Maryland in the year 1822. She started working at a very young age, by the age of 5 she was already doing child care and consequently by 12 she was doing field work and hauling logs, as she got older the job got harder. When she turned 26 Harriet decided to make a life-changing decision when her master died, she decided to abscond. She married a free black man.
The hopes of seeing her family again and making a difference in other slaves' lives pushed Tubman. To complete her 13 missions, she needed to be bold, not book smart. Tubman was blessed with the right traits to do what she desired. The outcome of Tubman's actions inspired others and saved many lives. She guided many slaves to freedom and saved their lives.
Tubman was included in a team of eight African American spies led by troops from Massachusetts. These troops, using boats, saved hundreds of slaves in one day (Document C). Although hundreds were saved, this was only conducted over one day in 1863 while the Underground Railroad was conducted over years creating a bigger effect on those saved. Tubman, despite her efforts, was not awarded or paid in any way for this accomplishment, even for risking her life. Tubman was constantly helping the slaves.
In 1861 during the civil war, Tubman enlisted into the Union army as a ‘’ contraband’’ Nurse in a hospital in Hilton Head, South Carolina. During the summer of 1863, Harriet Tubman worked with Colonel James Montgomery as a scout. Tubman put together a group of spies who would keep Montgomery informed about slaves who would be interested in joining the Union Army. After Tubman and her spies finished that work she helped Montgomery organize the Combahee River Raid. The Combahee Raid was organized to harass whites and rescue freed slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act granted plantation overseers permission to travel north to recapture and enslave freed or escaped individuals. Because of the dangers this law brought with it, Tubman began to take those she had rescued as far north as Canada for their safety. Over time, plantation owners gathered knowledge of Tubman. She was so successful with her charges that the plantation overseers placed a forty thousand dollar reward over her head, which, in modern finances, is equivalent to over one million dollars. By the time her trips to the plantations were over, Tubman had led a minimum of seventy people to freedom in the north and become the most well known “conductor” of the Underground
