What if slavery still existed in the United States today? Most people wouldn’t, there would be many laws separating the free from the enslaved. Slavery was a main issue that divided the United States in half during the 1800s. Many African-Americans were owned and enslaved by whites in the South. Harriet Tubman was one of the many who were enslaved in this time period. Although she did escape, she still saw the need for her people to be free as well. Harriet Tubman used her experience as a slave to free other slaves and helped to fight the law against slavery.
Harriet Tubman lived in a time where slavery where very common in the South. Harriet Tubman grew up on a plantation in Maryland, where she worked as both a house slave and also
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At the start of Tubman’s fight for freedom, she helped slaves escape slavery. She made nineteen trips back to the South to help guide slaves to freedom as a conductor on the underground railroad. Harriet Tubman helped nearly 300 slaves escape to freedom. (Source 3) Tubman knew the dangers of returning to the South every time she went to free slaves but repeatedly put herself in danger. She felt that no matter the risk, her people deserved to be free. Promises of emancipation were betrayed in 1863. This lead Harriet Tubman to go back to the front lines as a soldier in the war against poverty and inequality. (Source 5) Harriet Tubman chose to go and fight for what she saw was right just as she did to free the slaves. Tubman wasn’t afraid to fight for people’s equality. Something that would change the country for the better. During the American Civil War, Harriet Tubman guided troops through Southern territory. She took up this job because she knew the the area much more better than the Northern troops coming to fight the war. Once again, Harriet Tubman put herself in danger to help fight for equality of all people as well as the rights for slaves. Tubman wanted to help make everyone equal to each other, so she helped those who were on her