Harriet Tubm Conductor Of The Underground Railroad

Imagine being a slave at such a young age and having to learn many things so early in life but later help you when you are older well that is what happened to Harriet Tubman, she wouldn’t stop until she would be able to save any slave she saw.The biography, “Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad” by Ann Petry is about a slave who learned many skills as a child that would teach her to defend herself. She learned these many skills from her father when she was 6 years old. These skills would later come in handy for her when she is older. She would use these skills later to save many slaves from their owners and escape from slavery for good. She helped many families during the process to keep them all alive and well to safety.

A few things she used these skills for was that she saved many slaves, took the slaves to an underground railroad where they would be taken to safety, and helped the fugitive slaves get to freedom. She did this because she wanted to help all slaves so they wouldn’t have to suffer and maybe die. She would go save the slaves at night and take them to an underground railroad system. The results were her saving many slaves and delivering them to safety. She did this for all the slaves who needed help out there in the south. I think that Harriet Tubman was a great leader because she saved many people from slavery and finally get to freedom after years of being a slave. For example,“The years prior to the Civil War were especially perilous for escaped slaves, but Harriet Tubman returned again and again to the South to help fugitive slaves gain freedom.” (34, Petry) The author states, “By the time Harriet Ross was six years old, she had unconsciously absorbed many kinds of knowledge, almost with the air she breathed.” (35,

When Cesar was a child he helped his family by working in the fields with them. He labored in the fields, orchards and vineyards. Since he was a migrant worker himself, this led him to become an activist for people in his situation. With non-violent acts such as: strikes, boycotts, marches, and fasts, Chavez was able to teach others how commitment and sacrifice can set you free. Chavez gained rights such as “...rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand washing facilities, banning discrimination in employment and sexual harassment of women workers, requiring protective clothing against pesticide exposure, prohibiting pesticide spraying while workers are in the fields and outlawing DDT and other dangerous pesticides…” (24,CCF), and much more for farm workers when he established UFW as the first successful farm workers union in American history. Cesar’s movements encouraged others to take part in his protests. Cesar influenced and inspired millions of Americans and “He gave people the faith to believe in themselves, even if they were poor and unable to receive the best education.”