Letter To Harriet Tubman

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.

Harriet Tubman is well known for a successful role in freeing many slaves through the Underground Railroad. Not many know the major effect she had on the Union Army as a Scout and a spy during the Civil War. Her bravery while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and her assistance in gathering Confederate troops intelligence as a spy changed the history and made a great impact on the on the United States National Defense. Even though Harriet Tubman was a very skillful spy, she had many indicators that were missed while she was spied for intelligence and reported the material which were compromised to her handler.

      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.

Because she was an abolitionist, had other jobs doing good things, and nothing stopping her from doing anything, Harriet Tubman sets a heroic example. Harriet wasn’t necessitated to free slaves or work for the Union Army, she decided to do that on her own. Harriet always had a job to do and every job she had basically helped someone else in some kind of way. In 2016, The U.S Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman will soon appear on the $20 bill replacing Andrew Jackson. Thanks to her, many people were able to live their lives free and well. We also now know what it is to fight for what we think is

One night Harriet Tubman described it as a turning point in her life. She said that she saw many escaped slaves, but none of them went back to help the others. To Harriet Tubman, slavery to her is being there with the devil. Harriet Tubman had two rights, and that is liberty or death, she also wants nobody to take her back alive and that she will fight for her freedom. She escaped from slavery in 1849, and when she reached the North, she told herself that she’s not free until her family is free. Throughout all the trips that she made, she never lost a slave. For this reason, there were many rewards for catching her. In total she saved over thousands of slaves, and is now the most remembered black person in the

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

Harriet Tubman is probably the most famous “conductor” of all the Underground Railroads. Throughout a 10-year span, Tubman made more than 20 trips down to the South and lead over 300 slaves from bondage to freedom. Perhaps the most shocking fact about Tubman’s journeys back and forth from the South was that she “never lost a single passenger.”

The author of the letter to Lincoln was abolitionist Lydia Marie Child who directly quoted Tubman. According to text, Tubman was illiterate so she had others write for her; “her oral reminiscences were recorded in book form by a neighbor and friend, Sarah H. Bradford” (TWE 307). Tubman was well known for her work in the Underground Railroad, a “network of safe houses” that led slaves to freedom (Bio). She was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820 under the name of Araminta Ross; later she took her mother’s name, Harriet, and the last name of her husband, John Tubman, who she married in 1844. In her early life as a slave, Tubman went through a lot of hardships. Tubman’s sisters were sold to distant plantations, and physical violence was a part of her daily life. One of her most life-changing scars occurred when she refused to help an overseer punish a young man for leaving the field without permission. The overseer threw a heavy object intended for the young man and it struck Tubman in the head; she suffered permanent brain damage that would give her seizures for the rest of her life (Bio).

Bay Back Books stated: “Harriet Tubman had been a liberator, a woman who stood up to slave power, and a warrior whose actions spoke louder than words”. Clinton says that her

She has even managed to get her parents, some other siblings and 60 other people up to the North. Soon the will to free slaves got harder due to the Fugitive Slave laws. The law stated that slaves captured in the North must be returned to the South. Tubman did not let those laws stop her from freeing her fellow people. It creates a sense of fear in the slaves. On the morning of August 22nd , 1831 a group of slaves snuck into the plantation house and killed the planter and his wife then his children. The bloodiest slave revolt was on its way. During the next two days over 60 white people would die, they went house to house and killed any man, woman and child they could find. Those slaves were lead by Nat Turner a prophet who claimed that God

Even Harriet Tubman was a child, she always fought for freedom. She was born in a plantation in Dorchester Country, MD in 1820. Because she was a slave, we don’t know the exact birth date. She had 10 younger brothers and sisters. When she was five, she had a job as a nursemaid by Brodess. She had to watch her babies. After that, she worked at James Cook’s house to check for muskrat traps. At the middle of the job, Harriet Tubman was ill so James sent her back to Mr. Brodess as another master. As she got older, she was forced to work in the fields, even if she was really sick or tired. Workers in the fields did much hard work like driving oxen, plowing, and transporting logs. Harriet was treated as a slave almost every day because the slave

When Tubman was five years old, her slave owners rented her out where she slept on the kitchen floor sharing food with her new owners’ dogs ,but the renters gave her back to her original master for being useless and stupid (Taylor 35). When Harriet began help-ing more and more often, she started joining many anti-slavery groups (Taylor 41). She began leading many people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, taking them to houses to hide (Taylor 45). During the 1850’s, Tubman went to fight in the war to end slavery (Taylor 75). Later in the 1860’s, she was able to return home, she continued on with her previous labors, traveling from Boston, Maryland, Philadelphia and South Carolina leading victories of abolitionists (Taylor 79-81). In her last years, she lived as a peddler moving from house to house, selling her vegetables and fruit (Taylor 100). In 1913 on March 10, Harriet had passed away of pneumonia at the age of ninety-three. Many friends and family gathered singing her favorite song, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”. Harriet Tubman had many accomplishments and famous works, conducting so many people to freedom, leading abolition movements, Under-ground Railroad, and being skilled at many careers (Taylor

While working for the Union, she spied on the Confederate Army. When she returned with knowledge of whereabouts, the Union was able to plan a very discreet attack (Kuiper, 10). This evidence shows just few of the many works she completed for the Union. Afterwards, Tubman settled down in Auburn, New York. Where she found a home, and began adopting orphans and elders (Kuiper, 183).

Tubman was subjected to abuse in her earlier enslaved life, but that was oftentimes further exacerbated because she would response to commands from overseers with some act of refusal. For example, as an adolescent, Tubman was sent to a dry-good store for supplies and while there she encountered a slave who had left the fields without permission. The man’s overseer demanded that she help restrain the runaway slave, but she refused. It was then that the overseer threw a two-pound weight at her, striking her in the head, subsequently causing a life long series of headaches, seizures, and narcoleptic episodes. Regardless of this strife, however, Tubman maintained her position as being a non-violent individual. Instead, she redirected her time and

To start off, Harriet Tubman was extremely selfless. She risked her life to save her family. She rescued her parents and brought them to the north where they would be safer. Not only did she save her parents from the harsh reality of slavery, but Tubman risked being placed back into slavery in order to free innocent strangers. She did this not only once, but nineteen times, each becoming more dangerous to do. Her last trip to free slaves being during a time where she was wanted. Yet, her selflessness doesn’t stop there. Not only did she save the lives of so many people, she also served as a nurse during the civil war. Tubman was able to help many of the injured Union soldiers. She did this not for herself, but for the cause of helping the Union win the Civil War.