Leader of the Underground Railroad By: Lauren Agler and Danielle Corona

1. Harriet Tubman Leader of the Underground Railroad By: Lauren Agler and Danielle Corona

2. Harriet Tubman's Bio • Tubman was born in the year 1822, since she was born a slave she was denied any real childhood or education. • As a young adult, she did many physically demanding jobs such as a field hand, woodcutter, and lifting and loading barrels of flour. • At age 24, in the year 1844, she married John Tubman, a freeman. • In the summer of 1849 she decided to make her escape from slavery to the freedom of Pennsylvania, although sadly her husband refused to go along.. • A year later, in 1850,she returned to Baltimore to rescue her sister, then began guiding others to freedom. • Travel became more dangerous with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, but she was not deterred, despite rewards offered by slave-owners for her capture totaling $40,000. • Later Tubman eventually helped found the Underground Railroad.

3. Accomplishments Harriet Tubman was a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom…and a lot more… • Altogether, Tubman brought to freedom about 70 individuals in approximately 13 trips. • Was a soldier who battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. • Harriet fought hard for women's rights and in support of African American civil and humanitarian rights. • In the years 1862-1865 Tubman worked as a cook, nurse, laundress, teacher, scout and spy for the Union Forces. • Harriet Tubman did some heroic actions, on her way to Boston in April 1860, Tubman helped rescue a fugitive slave, Charles Nalle, from the custody of United States Marshals charged with returning him to his Virginia master.

4. Quotes by and about Harriet Tubman • “ I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” • “I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.” • “I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.” Quote ABOUT Harriet Tubman • From William Still, diary entry: "Great fears were entertained for her safety, but she was wholly devoid of personal fear. The idea of being captured by slave-hunters or slave holders, seemed never to enter her mind."

6. Harriet Tubman's Bio Notes • Denied any real childhood or formal education, Tubman labored in physically demanding jobs as a woodcutter, a field hand, and in lifting and loading barrels of flour. Although she had heard of kind masters, she never experienced one, and she vowed from an early age that she would strive to emancipate her people. In 1844, at age 24, she married John Tubman, a freeman, and in the summer of 1849 she decided to make her escape from slavery. At the last minute, her husband refused to leave with her, so she set out by herself with only the North Star to serve as her guide, making her way to freedom in Pennsylvania. A year later, she returned to Baltimore to rescue her sister, then began guiding others to freedom. Travel became more dangerous with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, but she was not deterred, despite rewards offered by slave-owners for her capture totaling $40,000. 111`1 • Mrs. Chicoine, we were unable to find the URL for this note slide…

7. Accomplishments Notes • URL : http://harriettubmanbiography.com/index.html • 1854 Tubman finally succeeds in rescuing her brothers on Christmas Day, bringing them to freedom in Philadelphia and then St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. By now Harriet has attracted the attention of abolitionists and Underground Railroad operators Thomas Garrett, William Still, Lucretia Mott, and others.Harriet Tubman was a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Here too are Tubman's twilight years after the Civil War, when she worked for women's rights and in support of African American civil and humanitarian rights, and when racist politicians and suffragists marginalized her contributions. Altogether, Tubman brought to freedom about 70 individuals in approximately 13 trips, though she gave important instructions to scores more who found their way to freedom on their own. 1862-1865 Tubman worked as a cook, nurse, laundress, teacher, scout and spy for the Union Forces stationed in the Hilton Head district in South Carolina, and in Florida.On her way to Boston in April 1860, Tubman became the heroine of the day when she helped rescue a fugitive slave, Charles Nalle, from the custody of United States Marshals charged with returning him to his Virginia master.

8. Quotes by and about Harriet Tubman Notes • URL:http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_h_tubman.htm • I grew up like a neglected weed -- ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. • I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. • had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. • Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. • I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. • We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. • Quotes About Harriet Tubman • From Alice Walker: "We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing." Alice Walker, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down. • From Frederick Douglass: "The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witness of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism." • From Frederick Douglass: "Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you." • From William Still, diary entry: "Great fears were entertained for her safety, but she was wholly devoid of personal fear. The idea of being captured by slave-hunters or slave holders, seemed never to enter her mind." • From Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1859 letter: "Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary. I have known her for some time -- the slaves call her Moses." • From Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1859 letter: "... a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. Yet in point of courage, shrewdness, and disinterested exertions to rescue her fellow-man, she was without equal." • From Oprah Winfrey: "I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge."