Resilience, is not a trait, but a process which allows strong individuals that have been knocked down by life to come back stronger than ever. Harriet Tubman once stated that “Now that I have been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.” Harriet Tubman biography states that she was a real life underground railroad conductor who once gained freedom. She then went back to the south to help others escape to freedom as well. Tubman was driven by her resilience to help others. As with Harriet Tubman, I have also experienced my share of resiliency in my life to better myself through education and hard-work to provide for my family from an early age. Author …show more content…
Take for example, Harriet Tubman she is individual that persevered and showed her resilience despite of being born into slavery, for 29 years Tubman was a slave in a Plantation in Maryland. Before escaping, Tubman suffered through family hardships and personal sickness. When she finally escaped to Pennsylvania a free state, she went on to become one of the greatest abolitionist of the 19th century. Tubman role in the underground railroad was as a conductor, she went on to free her family and hundreds of other people through the underground network of safe houses. In addition to being a leader of the underground railroad, Tubman worked with the Union Army as a cook, nurse, scout and even as a spy during the Civil war. After the Civil war, Tubman retired to a piece of land in Auburn, New York, she used this piece of land to tend to her family and others that needed a place to stay on the way to Canada. Tubman resiliency in the fight for civil rights has propelled her to be known as an American