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    to make deliveries. When the Confederates became suspicious of her‚ Bowser fled to the North. Later‚ Bowser was placed in the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame. Harriet Tubman also served as a spy. While under disguise of an old woman‚ she easily moved in Confederate territory. “In 1863 [Tubman] led a raid in South Carolina that resulted in the escape of over 700 slaves” (Flanagan 40). (Flanagan

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    “In 1860‚ when I ran from the plantation in Virginia‚ I decided to be twelve years old. COuld’ve been anywhere from nine to fourteen‚ but as Frederick Douglass‚ that great man‚ said‚ you might as well ask a horse how old he is as a slave” (Stolz 3). This quote was said by Cezanne Pinto‚ the main character of the historical novel‚ Cezanne Pinto‚ about a young slave living on a plantation in Virginia with high hopes of freedom and an education. Originally born Deucy Clayburn‚ Cezanne spent his time

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    can see. What somebody perceives is their own reality. In Brave New World‚ Siddhartha‚ The Tragedy of Macbeth‚ “The Truman Show”‚ Sonnet 130‚ “Plato: Book VII of The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave”‚ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ Anthem‚ “Harriet Tubman” and “Collective Wage Bargaining” how people’s realities are a combination of what they cannot control and what they choose to discover is depicted through metaphor‚ irony‚ foreshadowing‚ diction‚ point of view‚ and historical context. People

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    develop headaches that would occur throughout her life. Maurer’s (2016) exhibit allows us to view the iconic store where all of this took place. Tubman ran away from the plantation in Maryland despite help from her husband and kept running even though her brothers turned back. She did not let others discourage her from her freedom. My thoughts about Tubman is that she was such a selfless individual. She made it to freedom and yet she was still willing to go back and risk her life so that her family

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    impact on history. Slaves did so much for southerners but the southerners never did anything for the slaves. The slaves would always take care of the southerners houses‚ plantations‚ and sometimes did there errands. Harriet Tubman was a brave woman. She was born into slavery and escaped. Harriet risked her life by going back and saving her family and going back many other times to help others escape. She was the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a system of underground

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    Harriet Tubman escaped slavery from Maryland in 1849 she “. . .returned many times to rescue both family members and other slaves from the plantation system.” (Biography.com) Harriet “. . . Tubman volunteered for the Union as a cook and a nurse before she was recruited by Union officers to establish a network of spies in South Carolina made up of former slaves” (Smithsonian). She was also the first woman to lead a military expedition. “On June 1‚ 1863‚ Montgomery‚ Tubman and several hundred

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    Abolitionism is a familiar expression that defines the journey that ended slavery and segregation between whites and African Americans beginning as early as the 1820s. The Abolitionist where very vocal about their opinions and spoke openly on freedom and agreed “all men were created equal”. In response‚ slave owners contradicted these opinions and rebelled. With this conflict came the American Civil War. In result of there being so many abolitionist‚ the first American abolition society was founded

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    Courage is key to a great leadership. Everyone has the compacity to be courageous‚ but how about being courageous leader. Harriet Tubman was a very courageous leader. Although she was already free and had escaped from slavery‚ she ricked her life to help free others. From freeing herself and going to the northern part of the U.S‚ she began leading fugitive slaves to Canada! Harriet Tubman is a true courageous

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    event because it shows that the world can be a cruel place at some moments and this war shows that we need to come together and not have arguments because this war had many more deaths than all the U.S wars all together. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were very important appliances in the war and also the technology for the war. The cap bullet was a very important part of the war and including the telegrapher‚ photography and the railroads were a very important part to the civil war. The

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    Underground Railroad.” (Eastern Illinois University). Another abolitionist that made a great indentation on the slave movement was Harriet Tubman. “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if I only knew they were slaves.” (Tubman)‚ this shows Harriet Tubman’s desire to free all slaves and that if she could have saved each of them she would have. Tubman was an excellent conductor and with her hard work she proved to be successful in her slave escape leadership. With having these

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