varying racial backgrounds provided food and shelter for the runaway slaves. These brave people were known as "conductors". While the underground railroad had many conductors‚ perhaps the most well-known and influential was African-American woman Harriet Tubman‚ who used her diverse culture not as a crutch‚ but as an instrument of leadership. Throughout her life‚ this inspirational woman challenged stereotypes of race‚ gender‚ and social class.
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These two passages are about Harriet Tubman. They tell how she lived her life. They also tell about what she did for slaves. She was known for the slaves and how she helped them with the Underground Railroad‚ but these two passages don’t tell you all the same things. They don’ have the same structure either. The first passage gives you a lot of facts about Tubman. “Her abilities to track through the woods‚ disguise herself‚ and lead others on secret missions equipped her well to help carry on activities
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What makes a hero? This is the key question to my entire argument because today I am going to be arguing that Harriet Tubman is a hero‚ but what makes a hero. Is a hero just a mystery person wearing tights and having super strength‚ speed‚ or someone that saves the world every five minutes.According to dicrionary.com their are six different definitions of a hero. The first definition of a hero is a man of distinguished courage or ability‚ admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. The second
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Harriet Tubman: “Moses of Her People” March 27‚ 2012 Lily Papalii Harriet Tubman: “Moses of Her People” I. Early Life A. Birth 1. Araminta “Minty” Ross was born March 10‚ 1820. 2. She was born in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. B. Family 1. Harriet’s father died in the year of 1871. 2. Years later‚ her mother died in the year of 1880. 3. Harriet had 10 sisters and brothers‚ altogether
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Influences on American History Harriet Beecher Stowe was a very influential writer. Stowe wrote for a political purpose and for people to understand the inhumanity of slavery. She expressed her opinions in each of her writings. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield‚ Connecticut and brought up with puritanical strictness. She had one sister and six brothers. Her father was a controversial Calvinist preacher‚ thus influenced Harriet’s religious‚ and political
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issue. Through this topic I heard about Harriet Tubman the creator of the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in 1820 and escaped slavery in 1849. I admire Harriet Tubman because when she was free‚ she chose to risk here freedom in order to help her family and friends. It is a character like Harriet Tubman’s that makes a good leader. She was able to set up a network of safe houses and rescue hundreds from slavery. The fact that Harriet Tubman had the courage to risk her freedom
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and adults with nowhere to go. Harriet Tubman was the conductor of the Underground Railroad. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips and freed over three hundred slaves. Also‚ in all of her trips she has never lost a single passenger. Everyone who attempted to escape through the Underground Railroad succeeded. Harriet Tubman was the most well known conductor of the Underground Railroad. By 1856‚ the reward for the capture of Harriet Tubman was up to $40‚000. Harriet Tubman was a very important person
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Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who was involved in the fight to end slavery. She established the underground railroad‚ which was a way to get slaves safely to the north.Harriet Tubman was born between 1820-1825‚ but it is not certain the exact day or year.She was born in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Harriet Ross and went by the nickname “Minty”. She was born to enslaved parents and had 10 siblings. When she was young‚ she was beat very often by her
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In “ A Glory Over Everything” Harriet Tubman was an African American slave. She was kind‚ brave‚ and confident her braveness help her not not to be afraid to escape from slavery. Her goal was to escape from slavery to the North. Her confident got her to Pennsylvania. When Harriet worked in the fields. A woman would stop by and talk to Harriet. One day Harriet thought about running away but she thought what would happen if she got caught. She knew if she got caught she would
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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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