The Role Of Harriet Involvement In John Brown's Raid

Her status as a fugitive willing to risk her life, gave her great credibility as a spokeswoman for the abolitionist movement.” (Clinton) Tubman had the passion that helped her want to free all slaves, and even though she was risking her life she did not care and helped many people escape, including her parents. Tubman made it where she would take one yearly trip into the south. While Tubman served as a nurse in the hospital camps in the Coastal South Carolina, Clinton states, "Soldiers who were treated with her herbal remedies credited her with miraculous healing

Tubman is most notoriously known as an abolitionist, her activism and efforts as a conductor on the Underground Railroad would have been enough to merit putting her on the $20, but she was also a nurse, recruiter, scout and a spy for the Union Army. She was the first woman to lead an armed raid during the Civil War. Harriet Tubman did not fight for capitalism, free trade, or competitive markets. She repeatedly put herself in the line of fire to free people who were treated as currency themselves. She risked her life to ensure that enslaved black people would know they were worth more than the blood money that exchanged hands to buy and sell them.

Tubman’s first mission was to rescue her niece and 2 other children. She found out they were up for auction and sent a free man who was a family friend to “outbid” everyone else once he had the children secured he got in his boat and quickly sailed away before the auctioneer could notice he had been tricked. The children were brought to meet Harriet in Baltimore where she hid them for a few days before leading them to Philadelphia. Overall Harriet lead about 13 missions and freed about 70 slaves. During this time there is a myth that there was a 40000 dollar bounty on Harriet, If she was captured dead or alive (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/harriet-tubman-engineered-first-rescue-mission/).

In Adam Goodheart’s article “Moses’ Last Exodus,” he tells Harriet Tubman’s story of the Underground Railroad. He explains how her leadership skills and hopefulness allowed her to be successful in making twelve dozen trips to North in order to save her family and fellow slaves. In Paul Donnelly’s article “Harriet Tubman’s a great raid,” he told us about fellow abolitionists who supported Harriet Tubman’s abolition movement and they played a role in the emancipation proclamation. Such as Thomas Higginson, governor John Andrews of Massachusetts, David Hunter, General Rufus Saxton, Lincoln , Robert E. Lee, Captain Brayton, and Captain Hoyt. After reading these two articles, I found out more about how certain events led up to the Emancipation

She married John Tubman, a free black man, while she was young after falling in love with him. “Tubman and her two brothers decided to escape the plantation and head to Pennsylvania in 1849, when their owner passed away and they feared they would be sold”-CNN. In order to flee in 1849, Tubman walked over 100 miles from Maryland to Philadelphia, where she obtained employment and began a new life. She soon started making journeys back to Maryland to aid other enslaved people in escaping to freedom, but she could not forget the ones she had left behind. She rose to prominence as one of the Underground Railroad's most important leaders over the ensuing ten years, helping dozens of people to safety via a network of covert routes and safe houses.

She took a job as a nurse for the Union during the beginnings of the Civil War; she gradually gained jobs such as the head of a group of spies; she was one of the first African-American women to serve in a war. She reported important information with which the Union Commanders were able to free seven hundred enslaved individuals from a plantation; Tubman herself took part in the rescue. After the Civil War ended, Tubman did not receive nearly enough pay for her war services, and she took drastic measures to make up for her debt. She was only recognized for her war deeds thirty years after the conflict ended. Later in her life, Tubman supported oppressed minorities by giving speeches in favor of universal suffrage.

Harriet Tubman is a larger than life icon and an American hero. Harriet was born into a family of eleven children who were born into slavery. Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene were her parents, and lived on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet was put to work by the age of five, and served as a maid and children’s nurse. At the age of six Araminta was taken from her parents to live with James Cook, whose wife was a weaver, to learn the skills of weaving.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” -Abraham Lincoln. As this quote says, our ancestors’ intention for this land was that all humans would be treated the same way; equal. But this world didn’t end up like they wanted.

Tubman conducted the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves escape. The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad, it was the routes out of the south. On these routes, the slaves followed Harriet Tubman at night in order to escape the horrific conditions that they were living in. In conclusion, slavery was abolished later on in life, but at this point slaves were getting more violent, determined, and confident in themselves. For example, Nat Turner was a slave who killed his master and 60 other white men.

She was the first woman to lead an assault in the Civil War. During the raid, "More than 700 escaped slavery and made it onto the gunboats" (Clark). Tubman's leadership involved doing what it takes to get things done. She joined the suffrage movement that resulted in women in the United States being granted the right to vote. " After the war, Tubman raised funds to aid freedmen, joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in their quest for women's suffrage, cared for her aging parents, and worked with white writer Sarah Bradford on her autobiography as a potential source of income" (Michals).

Although we aren’t dealing with the issue of slavery today, there are a lot of other modern- day issues going on in society where we could use a leader like Tubman. Its people like her that really leave a mark in this world and are not lost in an abyss of all the others. Not because of a huge world war she was a part of, but because she helped put an end to some form of corruption, because she helped. One of the things that really stands out to me when I think of Harriet Tubman though, is that she gave many other people the chance to help society out too. She gave them all the chance to leave a mark on this world.

HARRIET TUBMAN Early Life Harriet Tubman was a slave in the west. She didn’t know when she was born. At the age of six she started slavery. The line between freedom and slavery was hazy for Tubman and her family. Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben was freed from slavery at the age of 45, stipulated in the will of a previous owner.

At this point Tubman came up with the idea of the Underground Railroad. After she escaped she successfully she was determined to pave the way to freedom to others. Tubman carefully planned and accomplished thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses now known as the Underground Railroad. She later assisted abolitionist John Brown to recruit men to participate in the raid on Harpers Ferry. In addition to her assisting John Brown, Tubman was an active participant in the post-war era in the struggle for women 's

Harriet Tubman mostly known for her abolitionist work was a very influential woman that saved many slaves’ lives. She was born into slavery with siblings and parents by her side. She died on March 10, 1913, but is still remembered for all of her work. Harriet Tubman had a hard life in slavery, worked in the Civil War, rescued slaves, worked on the underground railroad and can be compared to Nat Turner who also lived in the period of time when there was slavery. First off, Harriet Tubman was a slave that suffered many beatings and punishments for her actions that would cause her to have seizures in her later life.

Tubman was called this because she took slaves to the safety. Another way Harriet Tubman brought slaves to safety was when she codes songs to have different meanings. One song she would sing is“In Wade of the Water,” which told slaves to hide in the water. Another example of this is how when they arrived to a house they could stay at she would say “A Friend with Friends” so they would know it was her. The song “Steal Away” was a song to tell that a slave would soon be escaping.