Harriet Tubman's Greatest Achievement

Araminta Ross, also known as Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1819 and died 1913. She was one of 11 children. Raised in harsh conditions, she got whippings even as a small child. Some nights she would sleep as close as she could to the fire as possible. She would sometimes stick her toes into the fire to avoid frostbite. Harriet’s early childhood was spent with her grandmother, who was too old to do slave labor. In 1844, Harriet married John Tubman at the age of 25. Five years later, in 1849, Harriet escaped the slavery society. During her escape she followed the North Star until she knew she was free. Since Harriet was a very brave, strong-minded, determined, decisive, tenacious woman, it helped her
The Underground Railroad is one of Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievements due to her implementation, because of safety, locations, and people involved. The safety had a lot to do with implementation because it involved others’ health, as well as her own and if they were actually safe or not. People’s health was very important while this was going on, because food was hard to find as a slave. Harriet always put other people before herself. Even if Harriet had not eaten for two days straight, she would still feed someone else before herself. No poor helpless creature was turned from her door, however, very often she would not have a clue where their next meal would come from. Hard days continued throughout the seventies to the nineties, with Harriet toiling to provide for the helpless and aged who surrounded her (Conrad 210). Shelter was very hard to find as well, because nobody wanted to offer shelter to slaves. Harriet was putting herself in great danger when she was taking the slaves to freedom.There was an award for her capture that got raised up to $40,000. There were about six different people helping Harriet, some of the people who helped even saved a