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How Is Harriet Tubman Brave

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Harriet Tubman was very brave and courageous. She helped many slaves out of slavery. She treated people how she wanted to be treated, with fairness. She tried to not let anyone be treated with unfairness. There was a little girl born into slavery, around 1882 on a farm near Buck town on Maryland’s Eastern shore (Allen 18). She was the fifth child born after her one sister Mary and brothers, henry and ben. Her parents were slaves named Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross, and the little girl’s name was Araminta Ross (Allen 18). She got a nickname as Minty, Minty Ross. Later on when she was twelve her master accidentally hit her in the head with a heavy weight iron (Allen 19). The master meant to hit a slave suspected of running away and missed …show more content…

Her brothers were scared so they forced Harriet to go back with them. They all had to face the consequences and take their punishments. Just two days later she escaped again, but this time she was by herself (Phelps). The night she left she brought with her, an ash cake in salt herring tied into a bandana (Haskins 40). She made that cake for breakfast the next morning to eat with her husband. Right before she left she took one last look at her husband and took off. Speaking of her husband, a while ago she talked to him about escaping. He just told her that she was very foolish (Haskins 44). She just kept on persisting so he threatened to tell their master. “Harriet was so shocked, the hurt she felt was greater than any physical pain she had experienced, and from then on she feared her husband” (Haskins 44). She was also afraid that if she did run away she might suddenly fall asleep because of her brain damage and get caught (Haskins 40). Afterwards, Harriet Tubman took a ninety mile trip to Pennsylvania on the Underground Railroad (Phelps). She was quoted as

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