Research Paper On Harriet Tubman

One of the greatest and more common achievement of Harriet was helping slaves escape through the underground railroad. In document A the map shows all the possible route she could have taking to go to St. Catharines in Canada. On the map there are routes that go through water, easy right ? Not quite, if Tubman would have gone through the bay they would have caught her easily. Document B, it states “ Trip estimates range from 8-19. She made most of her trips in and December when the nights were long and fewer people were out,” she did most of her trips at

Harriet Tubman was originally born as Araminta Ross in to a slave family including Harriet green and Ben Ross. Harriet Tubmans mother, Harriet Green was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess. Also Ben Ross, her father was held by Anthony Thompson. Harriet’s mother was assigned to the big hose leaving Harriet to take care of her younger brother and a baby. At the age of five or six, brodess hired her as a nursemaid under a woman named Miss Susan. As a nursemaid Harriet was to watch Miss Susan’s baby as it slept and if the baby woke up and cried, Harriet was whipped. She later recounted that she was beaten five times before breakfast due to the baby waking up. This left scars on her for life. She was smart and found ways to resist. She ran away for five days, wore more than one layer of clothing as protection against beating, and fighting back.

Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross in 1820 or 1821, on a plantation in Dorchester County, Buckton, Maryland, and the slave of Anthony Thompson. She was one of eleven children to

My name is Harriet Tubman. I was born a slave in Dorchester county, Maryland. In the younger time of my life I was beaten and whipped by my masters, but I never lost faith in the Lord. In 1849, I escaped from bondage and ran to Philadelphia, which was a non-slave state. After reaching freedom in Philadelphia, I returned to Maryland to rescue my family. Slowly, one group at a time, I guided dozens of slaves to freedom. They called me moses, leading my people out of bondage and shackles. There was something called the slave act of 1850 that made all the escaped slaves of the south return to slavery. This forced me to take the escaped slaves farther north into British North America.

Officially Abolishing Slavery America’s history shaped our nation into what it is today. Slavery was a major part of America’s history which should not be overlooked. The term slave is defined as “a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.” (Mariam-Webster Dictionary) The most eminent cases of slavery occurred during the settling and conquering of the United States of America.

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).

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 in Maryland. Her parents were born as slaves and the name they gave her when she was born was Araminta Ross. She had four brothers and three sisters. Her four brother’s name are Ben Ross, Robert Ross, Henry Ross, and Moses Ross and her two sister’s name are Mariah Ritty Ross and Linah Ross. Her early job is being a nursemaid at other households and she gets beaten up by the masters when she experienced physical violence and had permanent injuries from her abuse. She also suffered a traumatic head injury that caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia that happened throughout her life. In 1844, She married a free black man named John Tubman, but then he was in loved with another woman and in 1849 she escaped

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.

A strong and powerful lady said these wise words: “There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me”. The brave women who said these words were Harriet Tubman and she was one of the leaders of the Underground Railroad that helped slaves reach freedom. “Although not an actual railroad of steel rails, locomotives and steam engines, the Underground Railroad was real nevertheless” (encyclopedia The Civil War and African Americans 329) The term “Underground Railroad” referred to the

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”

According to www.history.com, Harriet Tubman was, and born a slave, until one day she escaped using the underground railroad she created in 1850. And after escaping from slavery Harriet Tubman went back to free her family and many more slaves using her underground railroad. She’s considerate of others and brave enough to have gone back many times to help free the other slaves.

The death of her master in 1847, followed by the death of his young son and heir in 1849, made Tubman's status uncertain. Amid rumors that the family's slaves would be sold to settle the estate, Tubman fled to the North and found freedom. But when there, in Philadelphia, she grew terribly lonely. She worked for the year and saved her money, determined to bring "her people" to freedom, as well. In 1850 Harriet helped her first slaves escape: her sister and her sisters two children. That

      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

Harriet Tubman is considered a hero when she helped free slaves. She led them through the Underground Railroad since she knew the all the routes well. The Underground Railroad was a transport that would help slaves escape to freedom and it was certainly secretive. Each stop would go to a safe-house (Math.buffalo.edu). Harriet Tubman