The Velvet Underground

escaped from her master’s plantation, in Maryland, in 1849, leaving behind her husband in hopes to find a better life for herself. According to Tubman herself, “ Mah people mus’ go free”, and so they did, as she became the lead conductor of the Underground Railroad. Subsequently, with the Fugitive Slave law coming into play, Harriet Tubman put herself in tremendous danger to free hundreds of slaves, but she believed in her cause and that what she was doing was necessary; that slaves were really…

Have you ever heard of the name Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman had many character traits some of them are independent, brave, and determined. Harriet Tubman’s character traits played a role in her deciden to escape from slavery. She lead 300 more slaves to freedom. When she was leading the slaves she had to go through woods quietly without getting caught. Harriet Tubman was independent, because she went north to south to free slaves on her plantation she would work on. She had to do that…

this out in my mind: There was two thing I had a right liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive”(Harriet Tubman: Quote...). Harriet Tubman is a hero because of her involvement with the underground railroad and her slave life. When Araminta was about 5 or 6 when she began working as a house servant. From a very young age she was determined to gain her freedom. She spent little time living with Brodess, he often hired her out temporary…

You might be a hero to a sibling even to a friend but this hero is known for her heroic actions. Harriet Tubman was born 1860 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, which is series of tunnels that lead to safe houses and was used in the 19th century. The railroad lead to Canada so the slaves would be able to be free, since Canada didn’t have slaves. Harriet made 19 trips to the South and rescued 300 slaves. “Never lost a single passenger”…

The name Harriet Tubman inextricably linked to the Underground Railroad, the network of secret safe houses and safe routes that were used by enslaved Africans in the United States to escape to freedom in states without slavery or to Canada. The iconic image of Tubman is of her staring straight ahead, her piercing eyes looking directly at a hypothetical camera without the trace of a smile, frozen in time. However, other interpretation and depiction of this iconic figure exists and it on display…

Harriet Tubman, she led hundreds of people safely away from slavery. Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland.On the month of March, in the year of 1822. She had very little education she wasn’t aloud to have been educated. Her job was to show slaves the underground railroad so they could be free. Somethings to know about Harriet. Harriet earned the nickname "Moses" after the prophet Moses in the Bible who led his people to freedom. In all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger." Just…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the year of 1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a famous author and an abolitionist. She was also in a group full of people that despised slavery and slave catchers. In the book she described the sin of slavery and tried to convince many people to stand up and stop slavery. The book, published in 1852 sold over 300,000 copies in just the first year. It became even more popular and sold over two million copies in the first ten years after…

It’s not rare for Uncle Tom’s Cabin to be assigned to English students as part of a certain project in the curriculum. While this is all well and good, many of those students do not research the author of the book they may be reading outside of the classroom. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, during her years, was not simply an author; but a significant historical symbol of the American Civil War. Her actions and writings influenced the zeitgeist of the era, and ignited a…

sought out Canada in the pursuit of freedom. She helped bring over 700 slaves from the United States. Even with her life at risk, she bravely put her own life at risk for the freedom of the oppressed. At the peak of her career as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, plantation owners put a bounty of $40,000 for her death. Even then, Tubman was never captured and remains one of the greatest Canadian African-American female inspirations to this…

tried to stop Harriet, for example: bounties, and the Fugitive Slave Law, but no matter what-Harriet succeeded. In her life, she was mostly supported by friends, family, and herself. There is one thing left to say, “She was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and she could say what most conductors can’t say: She never ran her ‘train’ off the track, and she never lost a passenger”…