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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 civil war and lastly, her third greatest achievement was being a scout/spy in the civil war.
Harriet Tubman’s extraordinary accomplishment was conducting the underground railroad. In the biography Tubman reading it says that ”she was able to avoid bounty hunters that were seeking a reward of up to forty thousand dollars for her capture.” In other words she was able to travel back and forth between routes without getting captured. That is when her code name “Moses” was keeping her safe because the bounty hunters only knew her by Harriet Tubman. Document b asserted that “she made trips over a ten year period.” Surprisingly Harriet has been conducting the underground railroad for over ten year. This
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Document d proclaimed “Harriet worked day after day, till late at night.” This ensured that she is a hard worker. It also shows that she cares for her job. Sara Bradford announced that “Harriet Tubman being a nurse is important because she helped the wounded and got them food.” So not only did Harriet care about her job but she cared about the people she had helped. This proves that Tubman being a nurse is very appreciable because if she did not care about helping people she probably would not have worked as a nurse. Of course this may be very important because she helped many wounded people but many can say it was not as intelligent when she was conducting the underground

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