Civil War Project Harriet Tubman’s official birth name was Araminta Harriet Ross. She was born in 1820 in Bucktown‚ Md. Tubman had 11 other siblings‚ all of them belonging to a slave couple.Harriet started working at seven years old‚ doing housework‚ and when she got older‚ she became a field hand. She had physical violence in her daily life. Many of the violence she suffered was permanent physical injuries. She was struck on the head by a slave overseer. After the blow‚ she kept on falling asleep
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any lives all they have to do is love their country. I have learned about many patriots this year and the many years i’ve been at school but the first person i think about when someone says patriot is Harriet Tubman she did it all. She made a really big impact on the fight against slavery. Harriet had so many opportunities to live her life as a slave without putting her life in danger but she refused to not do anything about it and she took action. Most women in her day wouldn’t even dare pulling
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Do you know who Harriet Tubman is? Also known as (Minty Ross) was a slave. At the age of five was out to do child-care. When harriet turned twelve she was doing field work and hauling logs. Despite she was a hardworking mother for many hard years‚ she lived in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. Harriet was a slave until they her and the other slaves found a route and named it the underground railroad. She spent 10 years going back and forth Harriet was born a slave and raised on Maryland’s Eastern
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Harriet Tubman: Civil War * Harriet Tubman was a cook‚ a nurse‚ a spy‚ scout‚ and a soldier for the Union in the Civil war. * She got involved in the Civil War because she wanted freedom for all slaves‚ and was already involved in their escape and their enlisting in the resistance. * Mary people joined her cause to spy for the union because they believed in what she was doing even at the risk of being killed / hanged. The Military Raid * Harriet Tubman was also the first
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Harriet Tubman Minty Ross was a brave intelligent abolitionist who sooner became known as Harriet Tubman. When she was five she was working as a babysitter but by the time she was ten she was already working in the fields. As Harriet got older she was doing more serious things. Throughout Harriet Tubman’s life she had many achievements that made her historically significant; her greatest achievement was conducting the underground railroad‚ her second greatest achievement was being a nurse in the
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“Harriet Tubman” Biography Strong is a phenomenal word to describe Mrs. Harriet Tubman: she fought through all of her challenges even though some brought her down. Harriet Tubman was an extraordinary heroine. She was extremely committed to reaching Canada and helping others to flee out of the slave states they were sold into. Harriet Tubman had many obstacles she had to overcome‚ this pushed her even more to move north. She was given a numerous amount of blessings as well. Along her journey there
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Harriet Tubman: One of the most influential and essential woman of the civil war era. Not only was she a conductor of the underground railroad‚ but she was a Union spymaster. What is a union spymaster you may ask ? Well a Union spymaster is the leading spy‚ or one of the leading spies of the Union. She demonstrated intelligence that could be considered advanced for the era‚ although espionage could have existed long before the civil war. Along with helping slaves through the underground railroad
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A girl named Harriet Tubman had the greatest achievement of saving hundreds of slaves lives. Harriet Tubman was 27 years old when she escaped slavery herself. Also‚ she was born in the border state of Dorchester County‚ Maryland in 1805. But Harriet’s husband died in 1849 and she made a big decision and was a hero to her people. Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the underground railroad‚ civil war spy‚ a nurse‚ and caregiver with her greatest achievement being a civil war spy because she saved 800
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Harriet Tubman Biography Harriet Tubman was an extraordinary heroine. A beaten‚ broken young woman became a glorified saint to all hopelessly enslaved black people. Harriet was a divine miracle in the form of a female. She sang a gospel hymn or whistled like a bird to alert slaves of her presence. Her reliance on religion earned her the nickname Moses. Harriet possessed specific qualities that shaped her into a natural leader. Harriet Tubman fought for what she believed in without letting her fear
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Hannah Burchett English IV September 17‚ 2015 Comparison of Briseis and Harriet Tubman Although Briseis‚ priestess‚ Queen of Lyrnessus and eventually prisoner of war‚ and Harriet Tubman‚ escaped slave turned abolitionist‚ were alive during completely different time periods‚ both women experienced correspondent hardships and lived their lives in a manner that forms a connection between them. Briseis and Harriet are connected through their experiences as slaves‚ the altering of their names and their
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