Harriet Tubman And The Civil War

Now all of this was amazing, but Tubman was even able to handle all the now freed slaves, too. In Document C, Tubman sings to the slaves as they run to the boat for freedom. Tubman calms them down with her singing, along with motivating them to keep going. This simple act of being able to calm down and control the freed slaves goes a long way. These slaves would have been tired and scared since they were quite literally running for their lives and freedom.

While working as a conductor for the underground railroad, Tubman saved around 70 slaves, including multiple family members, which is quite a lot, but cannot compare to the 800+ she saved as a spy (Documents B and C). Along with those people, she also released a plentiful number of animals, specifically pigs and chickens (Document C). Her number of slaves saved while working on the underground railroad was impressive, but still 10 times less than the whopping 800 she freed during the Civil War. With the help of the North she also helped win the war over from the south, therefore slowly demolishing slavery. However, Tubman did not only save people, but she also encouraged and guided them with her wonderful leadership skills.

Harriet Tubman is such an inspirational and important person to remember in life’s history. She fought against slavery by helping other slaves gain freedom since she returned to the South

The second contribution of Harriet Tubman is that she was a conductor in the Underground Railroad, a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the south. On her first trip in 1850, Tubman bought her sister and her sister’s two children out of slavery in Maryland. In 1851, she helped her brother out of slavery, and in 1857 she returned to Maryland to guide her old parents back to freedom. Overall Tubman made about nineteen trips to the south and guided about three hundred slaves to freedom. But during those travels Tubman faced great danger in order not to get caught she would use disguises and carries a sleeping powder to stop babies from crying and also always carried a pistol in case one of the people back out once the journey has begun( Strawberry 1).

According to the text, “Harriet took them all in. She never said no,” (Zeldis 115). Therefore, Tubman helped a bunch of other slaves. To conclude Harriet was a benevolent lady who was destined to be free so she could help other

Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the south to become a leading abolitionist before the American civil war. She was born in maryland in 1820, and successfully escaped in 1849. Yet she returned many times to rescue both her family members and non-relatives from the plantation system.

At a young age, she constantly lived with the fear of being seperated from her family, which eventually happened when she lost a couple of her sisters. One day in 1849, her master died, and she made the brave choice to escape. With courage, will, and grit, she earned her freedom. After becoming free, what Tubman did in her life is what represented great achievements. She was a Civil War Nurse, a Civil War Spy, a Caregiver, and a Conductor.

There she visited the Philadelphia Vigilance committee offices, which was one of the main stations for the Underground Railroad (Schraff 38). Harriet learned many things about the Underground Railroad there. She realized she wanted to help people escape slavery and began to use the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape. For seven years Harriet took two trips a year to go rescue slaves in the South. She brought them North by using safe houses when they were available, but if not they had to hide in drainage ditches, abandoned sheds, and barns (Schraff 50). Harriet had many people who helped her on all these journeys. Thomas Garrett was one of them. He and Harriet were very close friends and he would hide the runaway slaves in a false wall in his shoe store (Schraff 51). He not only helped Harriet but he also helped lots of other runaway slaves as well. Sometimes, a house that was supposed to be a safe house was no longer safe. This was a major obstacle because Harriet never knew if the safe houses or trails were actually safe. Tubman’s attitude was that praying and believing in god was key in tough situations like these (Schraff 58). “The whites can not catch us for I was born with the charm, and the lord has given me the power,” Harriet said. She believed that god would help guide her to keep her runaway slaves safe and lead them to freedom. She also used her smarts and thinking on the go to protect her and her parties. Harriet did not allow anyone who was with her turn back to the plantation they had escaped from. She did not want the secrets of the Underground Railroad to be revealed to the slave owners. Someone who is too scared to escape might be tortured into saying what they saw and she would rather kill someone than let them go back. Harriet was tough, but effective in her work. Harriet became known as Moses of the Underground Railroad because of all her great work. Harriet

(Harriet Tubman was originally born Araminta Ross and then later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, Tubman ran away in fear that she, along with many other slaves on the plantation were going to be sold off. Harriet Tubman left on foot. Luckily, Tubman was given some assistance from a white woman, and was able to set off on her journey to freedom. Tubman used the North Star in order to find her direction during the night, slowly inching her way to Pennsylvania. Once Tubman had reached Pennsylvania, she found a job and began to save her money. The following year after arriving to Philadelphia, Tubman returned to Maryland and to lead her family to freedom. Among the people she took was her sister and her sister’s two children. Tubman was able to make the same dangerous trips months later back to the South to rescue her brother and two other men that her brother knew. On Tubman’s third return to the South to rescue her husband, she found that he had found another wife. Undeterred by her husband’s actions, she rescued other slaves wanting freedom and lead them Northward.

Harriet Tubman is a woman of faith and dignity who saved many African American men and women through courage and love for God. One would ponder what would drive someone to bring upon pain and suffering to one’s self just to help others. Harriet Tubman was an African American women that took upon many roles during her time just as abolitionist, humanitarian, and a Union Spy during the American civil war. Her deeds not only saved lives during these terrible time’s but also gave other African Americans the courage to stand up for what they believe in and achieve equal rights for men in women in the world no

In 1849, Tubman set her mind of escaping to the north. On September 17, 1849, Tubman with her two brothers, Ben and Harry, left Maryland. After seeing runaway notice offering $300, Ben and Harry had reconsiderations and returned to the plantation. Tubman, with her strong will, continued to escape nearly 90 miles to Philadelphia for her freedom using the secret network known as the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was neither a rail road nor underground. The routes taken at night to were called “lines” and at places they stopped to rest were called “stationed”. “Conductors” such as Harriet Tubman and Quaker Thomas used their knowledge and luck to securely free slaves from slave states to the Free states. (Biography, 2017) As she cross the state line into Pennsylvania she recalled “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”

Harriet Tubman was a poor slave girl who ran away from her plantation at the age of 28. Throughout the course of her life many people and many things challenged her. Each situation she was faced with tested either her mental or physical strength, usually both. She persevered through all of her trials stronger and wiser, and was willing to always help others through their own. Not one to instigate unless extremely necessary, Harriet was known for her quick thinking and her reactions to each ordeal she was faced with. She responded to them with a sharp mind, and strong faith in deliverance through the Lord.

Tubman was born into slavery. As a child, she was neglected and treated horribly. Even when she was supposed to be freed, her owner broke some laws and refused. Growing up, she

      For about ten years, she made an estimated 19 trips into the slave states and helped about 300 slaves to the north. Tubman was in great danged while she was a conductor of the railroad, because southerners offered a huge reward for her capture. Tubman used great disguises, posing as old men and old women, to avoid suspicion when traveling in slave states. She carried sleeping powder to stop babies from crying and always had a gun just for protection.

Secondly, Tubman was courageous. She escaped the harsh slave owners alone while only knowing very little about the underground railroad. It would take amazing bravery to leave knowing the consequences of being found. Yet, she did it alone while she was fairly young. Getting to the north didn’t stop her bravery, for she would put her life on the line many more times in her