Harriet Tubman
Even before Harriet Tubman was born she had a powerful enemy. Her enemy wasn't a person or even a country; it was the system known as slavery. It is known that at least two grandparents were captured by slave traders and brought to North America from the Slave Coast of Africa during the 18th century. Because slaves were not allowed to read and write, Tubman grew up illiterate. She left no letters or diaries that would later allow historians to piece together all the parts of her life story. But we do know that she was one of history's great heroines. With courage and determination, she escaped from slavery herself and then led more than 300 slaves to safety and freedom. When the Civil War began, she tirelessly scouted for the Union army and continued to free her people. Many of these newly freed slaves became new recruits for the Union army. Tubman rose from slavery to become one of the most remarkable stories in the history of the United States of America.About 40 years before the Civil War began, a slave child, Araminta. Like others born into slavery, Araminta, who later become known as Harriet Ross Tubman, was never to know her birth date. Her parents, Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross, couldn't read or write. They didn't ev
Mark Buller, Harriet Tubman: her Courageous Story, PG 45 Stopping at people's houses was known as the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was how Harriet freed hundreds of slaves, including her aging parents. She would have covered wagons with fixed bottoms, which were filled with slaves. She would take them to various homes of other abolitionists for food and shelter throughout the night. They were willing to help runaway slaves at a chance to obtain freedom. A lantern on a hitching post meant it was a safe house. Many slaves were afraid to knock on a white family's door and trust them, for fear of being betrayed and sent back to the plantations. The people at the safe houses gave slaves hot food and shelter for the remainder of the night. Slaves had to hide in the daytime and travel by night in order to lessen their chances of being captured. Once day broke Harriet would continue her journey towards the free states.
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