Preview

Escape To Freedom: Bravery

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
147 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Escape To Freedom: Bravery
In the book, Escape to Freedom, by Barbara Brooks Simon, Callie shows bravery and courage in the face of slavery. Even though she was scared, she went through the woods. Without any knowledge of the city, she dove into the life of free whites. She made it all the way to safety without being caught. Callie showed great courage and bravery.

Callie was brave. She knew what was coming, and decided to run before she could be sold South. However, she knew nothing of the woods, but the motivation of freedom drove her on. During her time, the mid-1800s, many slaves were being sold. Callie avoided that life, and went into the woods, determined to be free or die trying. Callie was valiant. During their escape, most slaves hid during the day. However,
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Harriet Tubman Speeches
    • 361 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Harriet Tubman Speeches

    Today I wanted to talk about a woman who is very heroic and changed the lives of many slaves, a woman named Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a woman who is famous for her hard work as an abolitionist and being the conductor of the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850’s. She helped many other slaves like herself escape to freedom. Harriet was a strong woman who was filled with determination,strength,passion, and patience. She was a true hero who wanted to serve people and she was extremely brave for her actions of freeing so many slaves. Considering she was a slave herself, if she had been caught who knows what kind of terrible consequences she would have had to face, one being death. But she didn't let that stop her, she wasn't…

    • 361 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Velma Colvin Research Paper
    • 616 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Velma Colvin Research Paper

    She was studying black history month in her segregated school and studied about the black leaders in which includes Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. Harriet Tubman escaped slavery at a very young age to become an abolitionist. She also helped a lot by leading former slaves to their freedom by using the underground railroad method. Sojourner Truth is best known for her speech “Ain’t I A Women?”. “Ain’t I A Woman?” talks about how women deserve the same equal rights as men.…

    • 616 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Analyzing Sojourner Truth's Speech
    • 295 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Analyzing Sojourner Truth's Speech

    I am impressed by Sojourner Truth’s wisdom and the bravery it took to speak those words, at such a tumultuous time. As a woman; particularly, a Black woman, I felt a sense of pride as I read this speech. I don’t think I could be prouder, if I were one of Sojourner’s descendants. For all I know, I may very well be, as 13 of her children were sold into slavery.…

    • 295 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    What Did Harriet Tubman Contribute To Freedom
    • 210 Words
    • 1 Page

    What Did Harriet Tubman Contribute To Freedom

    Harriet Tubman’s courage helped her escape because she was less afraid. This made her determined to get to the north. Her courage also helped her be brave enough to save other slaves. She knew that she had to save other slaves.…

    • 210 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Red Badge Of Courage How Does War Change
    • 711 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Red Badge Of Courage How Does War Change

    War can make a man forget about other things going on in life and just focus on the war. He wasn’t brave when he left the battle. He wasn’t brave when he lied about his wounds when asked what happened.When he comes back to war for the first time is when he first become courageous. When he runs around with the flag in his hands is also an act of bravery. In the beginning of the book I asked myself, “Would his mother be proud of him leaving the war?” I knew that she wouldn’t because that makes him a coward. He went to war which was very brave of him but he regretted it once it was time to fight. I know now that his mother would be very proud of him and how far along he has came on his journey of war. She would be very proud to have a brave son that is willing to fight for his army and for his…

    • 711 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Analysis Of Ain T I A Woman By Harriet Jacobs
    • 291 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Analysis Of Ain T I A Woman By Harriet Jacobs

    her words and is encouraging other African-American people to have an equal life, justice and respect like the white people are experiencing. She fought for her freedom by her words, "That man over there says women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere". She defended the man and concluded that he was right. Nevertheless, she said "Then that little man in black there he says women…

    • 291 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Harriet Tubman Courage Definition
    • 201 Words
    • 1 Page

    Harriet Tubman Courage Definition

    There is no doubt that Harriet Tubman had courage because after escaping from slavery, she went back multiple times to bring hundreds more to freedom. Harriet Tubman also demonstrated focus because it’s not like she can just go casually to the southern states. If she was caught, she would face jail time, or even…

    • 201 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Harriet Tubman Fight for Freedom
    • 1698 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Harriet Tubman Fight for Freedom

    One day, while Harriet was working, a slave who was trying to escape ran past her. The slave’s master was running after him “Araminta (Harriet Tubman) was told to hold the slave that had tried to escape while the owner whipped him. She refused…

    • 1698 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Harriet Tubman
    • 284 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Harriet Tubman

    Freedom Harriet Tubman was a brave woman, she managed to take eleven slaves to Canada, with no one noticing anything. She also did something that was surprising, she took the gun that she had with her to make a slave stay or to die, "We got to go free or die." She didn't allowed a slave to go back while they were traveling because someone might figured that he/she were returning from the running slaves and might have to answer questions. She traveled to differents places to stay like Thomas Garret's house in Wilmington, Delaware. She wanted to get to Canada to have a chance to feel what it would be like to be free. She painted pictures of what she thought Canada would be like, that shows she wanted to be free. In the couples of houses she stopped to get food and to get warm, I believe the persons that owned the houses agreed that they should be free, but they were too afraid to make a move. At the start of the story they were searching for Moses who they thought it was a man, which it was not it was Harriet Tubman, who wanted to run off slaves. The slaves at the story were patience. Harriet had promised them food, and shelter, when they got to the first stop in the farmhouse the man said they were a lot of slaves and that it was not safe, because the farmhouse had been searched a week ago before they arrived there, so they didn't had what she had promised them. The slaves didn't screamed at her or complained. When they arrived to Canada I think that even though…

    • 284 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Harriet Tubman My hero
    • 269 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Harriet Tubman My hero

    Welcome to the 18th and 19th century, were type machines were invented, where wigs and hats were fashionable and where white posh men and women lived the glamour’s life...but was on the other side? What was the other story? In the 18th and 19th century slavery was introduced to injustice. Where black people were humiliated and abused just because of their skin colour, how much longer would people endure this injustice? Brave, intelligent and Courageous? Those three words tell a story that no other can. The one she went through, the one all black people were forced to go through, some dangerous others horrifying, her name was Harriet Tubman. Well let’s just say she didn’t have a choice and had to face and endure danger and pain. Something that no ‘human being’ should go through, something that doesn’t even exist in nightmare...but that was what Harriet Tubman had to face, and I don’t mean in her dreams...this was reality, this was real. Harriet Tubman, in my eyes changed society today because of what she believed and experienced. Despite her age, she was very passionate and ambitious. She never gave up in her rights for freedom or regretted on how her family raised her. But one thing she knew was to keep on fighting. She knew what was going on around her and why she was locked up from society. She was not educated but her intelligence was unexpected, as she never had an education but she worked long hard hours on the field since she was a young girl.…

    • 269 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Courage Of Harriet Tubman
    • 471 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Courage Of Harriet Tubman

    The main idea of this story is that everyone has their own rights and freedoms. This story is about a girl named Harriet Tubman who had a dream of being free, but she realized that others deserve their own freedom as well. She went back to free all of her loved ones and did it again a few years later. Without her the slaves would continue to work and no one would stand up for themselves. The theme of this story is that freedom belongs to those who believe in it enough to show others what it means to have…

    • 471 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Best Essays

    Laura Secord
    • 1781 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Laura Secord

    A heroine is a woman of distinguished courage or ability, admired for her bravery and noble qualities; Laura Secord easily qualifies and exceeds this definition[i]. Her initiative, quick wit, intelligence and physical fortitude have been inspiring people since her story became widely known. Laura Secord is a genuine icon of Canadian history because 200 years later we are still hearing her story and the effects her actions had on the war of 1812. Laura Ingersoll Secord deserves a place of honour in Canadian history because of her exceptional courage, bravery and heroic act which made a significant impact on the outcome of the battle at Beaver Dams.…

    • 1781 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Best Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Courage In The Kite Runner
    • 1007 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Courage In The Kite Runner

    There are different kinds of courage a person can have. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, there are different kinds of courage each character in the book has. Amir, Hassan, and Baba, three characters in the book can all be considered courageous, but they’re all courageous in different ways. There’s no one way courage can be described. A man who confronts a murderer can be considered courageous, and a man who leaves his best friend of 42 years can also be regarded as courageous. The only action in common between these 2 events is the fact that they’re doing something that would frighten them. In the story, Amir, Baba, and Hassan did things that frightened them, but they were able to get over their fears do…

    • 1007 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Sojourner Truth, “Aint I a Woman?”
    • 780 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Sojourner Truth, “Aint I a Woman?”

    Sojourner Truth’s speech, “Aint I a Woman,” is an in depth, personal account of slave life and the cycle of self-discovery by which Truth acknowledges the ills and dynamics of race, class and gender have upon an African American woman living in America. She intersects axes of analysis and questions the dominant image of femininity which was limited to the most elite, white women in society at that time. Throughout the speech, Truth explains the heavy burdens black women slaves are forced to carry on a day to day basis. The oppression she endures is conveyed to the reader through firsthand accounts given by Truth. The inhumane actions of the oppressors towards African American women reveals the cruelty many white males, predominately slaveholders in the 19th century possessed and how their unjust behavior contributed to Truth’s underlying motivation to escape the struggles of the south and seek liberty.…

    • 780 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Every Man Was Created Equal Was The Gro
    • 647 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Every Man Was Created Equal Was The Gro

    There were a few who may not have felt the cruel pangs of slavery, but were definitely subjected to its cruelty. Of these few, one woman by the name of Angelina Grimke was born and raised a Southerner. Grimke opposed slavery but she was also an advocate for women’s rights. She believed that all men and women were created equal. Her hatred for slavery caused Grimke to flee her hometown. She fled to…

    • 647 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More

Related Topics