Harriet Tubman's Political Career

Harriet Tubman: Harriet Tubman became famous as a performer on the Underground Railroad during the stormy 1850s. She was born a slave on Maryland’s eastern coast, she withstood the harsh life of a field hand, including ruthless beatings. In 1849 she fled slavery, leaving her husband and family behind in order to escape. Harriet Tubman's birth name was Araminta Ross. Tubman’s conflict to slavery did not end with the outbreak of the Civil War. Her services as nurse, scout, and spy were asked by the Union government. After the war, Tubman returned to Auburn, New York, and continued to help blacks forge new lives in free will. Lack of money continued to be a pressing problem, and she supported the home by selling copies of her biography and giving
She is also a well-educated, intelligent, and unusually assertive for a woman of her time, a helpmate to Lincoln’s political career, and a loving mother. Mary Ann Todd was born December 13, 1818. Mary entered the White House with two attacks against her. Firstly she was a westerner, a woman outside the Washington ladies’ group. Secondly she was born in the South. In 1875, ten years after the death of her husband, her last child, Robert, had her tried by a judges to determine if she was insane. She had been under a doctor’s care almost continually for a year and a half, had reported to that doctor and others information that made it appear she was suffering illusions. She died in 1882 and was honored in Springfield by women who portray her in living history
Susan B. Anthony was one of the heavy forces of the women’s suffrage movement, a loyal equal rights advocate, and social activist. She devoted her life to not only fighting for women’s equality but for the equality of all people. She was totally self-conscious of her looks and speaking skills, but because her Quaker upbringing had placed her on equal stability with the male members of the family and encouraged to express herself. She overcame these fears to more effectively fight for equal rights. Wary of not being taken seriously, she hardly smiled in photos, appearing stern and simple. She spent much of her adult life traveling the country, speaking about equal rights, circulating petitions, and helping to organize local women’s human rights and labor societies. She was the first actual woman printed on a circulating United States