...Harriet Tubman Biography From Slavery to Freedom: Underground Railroad Conductor, Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate by Jone Johnson Lewis [Harriet Tubman] tried to persuade her brothers to escape [slavery] with her, but ended up leaving alone, making her way to Philadelphia, and freedom. Harriet Tubman Courtesy Library of Congress The year after Harriet Tubman's [arrival in the North, she decided to return to Maryland to free her sister and her sister's family. Over the next 12 years, she returned 18 or 19 more times, bringing a total of more than 300 slaves out of slavery. Harriet Tubman's organizing ability was key to her success -- she had to work with supporters on the clandestine Underground Railroad, as well as get messages to the slaves, since she met them away from their plantations to avoid detection. They usually left on a Saturday evening, as the Sabbath might delay anyone noticing their absence for another day, and if anyone did note their flight, the Sabbath would certainly delay anyone from organizing an effective pursuit or publishing a reward. Harriet Tubman was only about five feet tall, but she was smart and she was strong -- and she carried a long rifle. She used the rifle not only to intimidate pro-slavery people they might meet, but also to keep any of the slaves from backing out. She threatened any who seemed like they were about to leave, telling them that "dead Negroes tell no tales." A slave who returned from one of these trips could betray...
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...sdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdfsdsdvvHarriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849, fleeing to Philadelphia. Tubman decided to escape following a bout of illness and the death of her owner in 1849. Tubman feared that her family would be further severed, and feared for own her fate as a sickly slave of low economic value. She initially left Maryland with two of her brothers, Ben and Henry, on September 17, 1849. A notice published in the Cambridge Democrat offered a $300 reward for the return of Araminta (Minty), Harry and Ben. Once they had left, Tubman’s brothers had second thoughts and returned to the plantation. Harriet had no plans to remain in bondage. Seeing her brothers safely home, she soon set off alone for Pennsylvania. Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad to travel nearly 90 miles to Philadelphia. She crossed into the free state of Pennsylvania with a feeling of relief and awe, and recalled later: “When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” Rather than remaining in the safety of the North, Tubman made it her mission to rescue her family and others living in slavery. In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold, along with her two young children. Kessiah’s husband, a free black...
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...The goal of the abolitionist movement was the fast emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and exclusion. Abolitionism was partly fueled by Second Great Awakening, which encouraged many people to advocate for emancipation on religious grounds. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly noticeable, which contributed to the regional hostility between North and South leading up to the Civil War. Some Americans felt slavery was necessary for the prosperity of the country, they needed cheap labor in order to support their lifestyle. Others deep down felt that slavery was wrong, Slavery goes against their religious belief. The Abolitionist movement consisted in free blacks, white women and men. Even in colonial times, American societies struggled with the issue of slavery. This continued to be a major issue after independence. The independent, idealistic, and often deeply pious thought that had spurred so many immigrant journeys to the New World also prompted a great many antislavery sentiments among individuals and larger groups. Religion, politics, and philosophy all spurred antislavery activism at various times and in various places. Yet southerners would later mobilize these same forces to defend slavery during the nineteenth century. The Abolitionist Strategy There were many ways Abolitionist tackle the anti-slavery campaign, they develop and three prong attack strategy which consisted in a religious campaign, a political campaign and aiding the fugitive...
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...owners. However, without organization, it was impossible for larger numbers to escape. Abolitionists (people who believed slavery should be outlawed) in the North and South needed to work together to provide a way to move more slaves from plantations to free states. These people established a series of places and a system of codes designed...
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...Araminta ross, later changed to Harriet tubman achieved many things in her 91 years of life but her most known about achievement is being a underground railroad worker. The second most important is her being a caregiver.Third is her being a civil war spy.Lastly is her being a civil war nurse.In my opinion her most important achievement is her being a underground railroad worker because of the fact that she made a difference in about 300 people's lives making all of them free. First let's start off with tubman's greatest achievement The underground the Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people in efforts to escape to free states or Canada. Harriet was one of the people who helped...
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...Leadership is the action of leading a group or an organization. Being a leader is important, and there are leaders all over the world. Everyone can be a leader including yourself; you just have to work for it and take action. There are big leaders like the president, but there are also smaller leaders like your parents or a teacher. Some traits that a leader might have are bravery, strength, smarts, kindfulness and more. Leader will identify a problem and fix it, if they can’t fix it they will do whatever they can to try and fix it. I chose Harriet Tubman for my paper because she did something amazing and she changed history. During this process she was being a leader, she was leading a huge group of people to their freedom. Harriet Tubman was a slave, so she really didn’t have a choice for her profession. She was forced to work everyday, but after she reached her freedom she became an abolitionist. An abolitionist is a person who completes and action to create a system or solves a solution. She became a conductor of the underground railroad, and went back dozens of times to save slaves. Later on she was a spy, nurse and...
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...Although the Compromise of 1850 introduced several measures that would impact the nation and cause further tensions and division amongst pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups, the Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial. The Fugitive Slave Act safeguarded slavery, not only in the states where slavery was allowed, but also imposed this same protection in non-slave states. While abolitionists regarded this as a violation of state sovereignty and a disparagement to free land, pro-slavery groups rejoiced in the strengthening of political and legal support of slavery throughout the United States. As law officials attempted to reclaim slaves who had escaped to freedom in the north, they were met with increasing resistance and violence....
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...Walker English 10H 20 February 2024 The Life of Harriet Tubman Who is Harriet Tubman? Many would say she was an escaped slave who helped others like her gain freedom using the Underground Railroad. However, she is so much more than that. Harriet Tubman is not only a role model for all women who want to make a difference in the world and have all odds stacked against them, but also, a determined, strategic, and powerful person. She has faced many trials and tribulations over the course of her long, eventful lifetime. As she once said, "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had the right to, liberty or death; if I could have one, I would have the other.”(Dawson). Her early life, accomplishments,...
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...thrived economically due to slave labor when it was established, without the Abolitionist Movement, it is unlikely that individuals in our society would have the equal rights and freedoms that they enjoy today. From the 1600’s to the 1800’s, the original intention of slavery was to build economic prosperity for the new nation; however, the abuse that slaves endured eventually transformed slavery into America's greatest nightmare. Previously, in 1619, in America, slavery first began when 20 African slaves were put aboard a Dutch...
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...municipalities other than Salisbury, is Fruitland. Fruitland was incorporated as a town in 1947. Originally called Dishroons crossroads and later Forktown. Racial integration was in the school’s whites went to Fruitland primary and Colored people went to Fruitland...
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...is a gifted author who does a magnificent job providing blow-by-blow detail on events as well as bringing to life the fascinating, messianic leader who would push a nation towards civil war with his prophetic words, writing down one last message as he left his cell for his execution. “I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of the guilty land, will never be purged away, but with blood.” (256) However Brown was not always so keen to violence; Brown was born in Connecticut in early 1800 and moved to...
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...ability between men and women were presumed to translate into different social roles and responsibilities. Some people claim women were expected to stay home to take care the children. ”The ideology of gender spheres was partly a response to ongoing chaos of a changing society-an intellectual and emotionally comforting way of setting limits to the uncertainties of early industrializations”(Boydston 130). Nonetheless, women’s domestic labor should not be separated from work labor that takes place in public like male spaces. Women’s housework should have never seen interpreted as basic and unnecessary work that is subordinate to the development of the economy and the social order. The sphere philosophy camouflaged the reality of females’ works such that females themselves understood their work as dissociated from productive industrialized labor. Distinct sphere ideology began as a metaphor and was then accepted as reality. However, the United States was experienced a substantial economic and social changes in the beginning of nineteenth century. In this rapidly altering society, the separation of work and home with emotional need to reserve a perfect family, directed to a belief that males and females subsisted in a distinct but harmonizing domains. Women’s role was to deliver a sanctuary for their spouses and children from the harshness of modern capitalism. Consequently, women have an important role and responsibility for the development of the economy and...
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...black involvement. There is often an assumed male history. History books mainly reflect the involvement of men. The abolitionists (Clarkson and Wilberforce), the Slave traders (Canot) and the enslaved (Equaino). In portrayal of enslaved people, men appear more frequently. In the movie Amistad it is told from the point of view of Cinque; in the TV series Roots it follows Kunta Kinte. This male dominated history fails to acknowledge, belittles and devalues the role of women at all levels of slavery. What about the female slave traders, slave owners, enslaved females, female rebels and abolitionists? Are they really invisible? Verene Shepherd, in Women in Caribbean History states that up until the 1970s Caribbean books neglected women because early historians looked at colonisation, government, religion, trade and war fare, activities men were more involved in. Also some historians felt that women’s issues did not merit inclusion and where women could have been included, such as slave uprisings, their contributions were ignored. Shepherd believes changes occurred with the influence of women’s groups who tried to correct the gender neutral or male biased history. There was also a shift into social history, looking at the non elite and into topics such as family life. Books started to look at women’s social and political activities. Unfortunately there was a lack of first hand accounts from the period of the transatlantic slave trade – accounts written by men at the time either...
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...Introduction: African American history. It has great and true stories to tell. These African Americans have different and unique stories to tell. Because of these people, they have made the United States a better place. Let’s go deeper into African American history. Pre-20th Century Contributions Way before the 20th century, African Americans made outstanding contributions to various characteristics of American society despite the challenges of slavery and discrimination. They excelled in areas such as literature, politics, arts, music, abolitionism, and entrepreneurship. But what people have had a huge impact in this era of Black excellence? Let’s list a few. Phillis Wheatley. She was the first ever published African-American female poet....
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...February marks Black History Month, the annual celebration of historic events and achievements made by black Americans. While Black History Month is recognized in Canada and the United Kingdom, it first began in the United States in 1976. Schools everywhere have been teaching children about the Civil Rights Movement – Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X – and the events that helped America make the progress to reach that turning point, like Sojourner Truth’s work as an abolitionist and Harriet Tubman as she helped free slaves through the Underground Railroad. While these historical figures are certainly worth learning about, we gathered four lesser-known ones from our book WHO WINS?: 100 Historical Figures Go Head-to-Head and You Decide the Winner by Clay Swartz,...
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