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Summary Of Harriet Tubm Conductor On The Underground Railroad

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Throughout the history of the world, freedom has always been a major conflict, which people who weren’t free sought to achieve. People fought to gain freedom, and risked their lives, and everything they love to be free. This freedom isn’t just being free of slavery, but being free of discrimination, and being free of all the negativity that life brings. The text that best demonstrates this fight for freedom, and the risks people took for it, was “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.” This text from Unit 4 best captures the idea of fighting for freedom by showing the struggles of real American slaves, who put it all on the line to escape freedom with the help of Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad. “Harriet Tubman: Conductor …show more content…

They had come to trust her implicitly, totally. They, too, had come to believe her repeated statement, “We got to go free or die.”” This quote from the text conveys how the slaves were willing to do whatever it takes to be free, as they adapted the statement “We got to go free or die.” It shows the slaves’ persistence, how they won’t ever give up and give in to slavery. Another example of this in the biography is paragraph 59, where it states “She continued to live in this fashion, spending the winter in Canada, and the spring and summer working in Cape May, New Jersey, or in Philadelphia. She made two trips a year into slave territory, one in the fall and another in the spring. She now had a definite crystallized purpose, and in carrying it out, her life fell into a pattern which remained unchanged for the next six years.” This paragraph of the text shows how throughout her life, Harriet Tubman never gave up on helping slaves become free, and shows her determination to fight for the freedom of all individuals. It shows her belief and philosophy that everyone should be treated equally and no one has to suffer the torture of being a

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