How Did Harriet Tubman Show Courage

In 1850, near the east shore of Maryland a young woman by the name of Harriet Tubman showed extraordinary courage. She did this by saving her sister, Maryanne, and her children from being auctioned and sold to the south. This operation was extremely important because any slave sold to the south there would be no records about where they went and not be able to contact their family; they would be lost. Other than being important it was notoriously dangerous in the city where her sister was being auctioned. First, anyone who helped fugitives went to jail immediately. Moreover, she was a fugitive herself, it has only been a year since her liberty in Philadelphia; therefore slave catcher would still be looking for her or her old master would remember her face. Anyone would think she was crazy because this is an enormous leap of faith that was most likely to fail. Only Tubman herself knows the reason why she was convinced to go to a slave state and rescue her sister by herself. A reason that I know of is because she didn’t want that family to be grief stricken and go through the same hardships she did. Their family would be separated like Tubman’s two other sister sold to the south.

Something that brought me to believe this was a story that was told by Tubman about a man who was sent to prison for 25 years. There he hoped and dreamed of home inside his cell. “But upon release, he leaves the prison gates, he makes his way to his old home, but his old home is not there. The house in which he dwelt in his childhood had been torn down, and a new one had been put up in its place; his family was gone, their very name was forgotten. There was no one to take him by the hand and welcome him to life.” About her liberty from slavery she then added “so it was with