Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman "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, approx. 1820’s-1913). Harriet Tubman quoted this after her first breath of freedom. She was born into slavery in the 1820’s, so it is chilling to hear her description of what that meant to her. I asked myself, “Would I risk that glory? That taste of heaven, to go back to the brutality of slavery just to save another? Probably not, I don’t know, but how much more would I be willing to save someone who was ridden with the mindset of a slave and unwilling to save themselves, or be saved? Harriet Tubman did go back, 19 separate times. She was known as the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. It was called the Underground Railroad because it used the same terminology. For instance, one safe house to the next was called “a line” and a freed slave was called a “package”. I don’t know if I could personally define the honorable Harriet Tubman but I would like to honor her today with sharing some known facts about her. We don’t know for sure the date she was born but it is of more importance to know what she did in the time that she lived. It is most memorable of what she did for over 300 slaves while being a woman with an expensive bounty on her head and a severe case of epilepsy - a condition that would hinder her cause with excruciating headaches and debilitating fainting spells. She would then go on to enlist and serve in the Union Army as a cook, nurse, spy and later a scout. In this case, a scout is a soldier. According to history.com, Harriet Tubman became the first armed woman to lead the Combahee River expedition. This expedition was meant to free more slaves. Ms. Harriet Tubman not only helped rescue another 700 slaves but she nursed them, fed them and helped them find jobs. While leading the