Biography of Harriet Tubman Essay -- Harriet Tubman Slavery Racism Ess

Biography of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 on a large plantation in Dorchester County,Maryland. She was the sixth of eleven children. She was born in a rattlingsm each(prenominal) on-room log hut, that was located behind her families confessers house. The huthad a dirt floor, no windows, and no furniture. Her fater, BenjaminRoss, and mformer(a), Harriet Green, were both slaves. They were from theAshanti ribe of West Africa. Edward Brodas, Harriets owner, hired her outas a laborer by the age of five. The buying and selling of human race was a big deal in America mingled with the aft(prenominal)-hours 1600s and the 1800s. By 1835 there were e very(prenominal)where two million black men,women, and children who were slaves. These plenty were bought and sold. Noone cared if husbands and wives got weparated or if children were separatedfrom their parents. hard workers were not treated deal people. No one reallycared what happend to them. Harrie t was beaten by her masters all the time. They saw as a wild child. One tiem, Harriet saw a bowl filled with lumps of suger and decided to takeone. Harriets mistress, Miss. Susan, saw her take it and started chasingher with a whip. Harriet ran away and hid out with the pigs. She ahd to gobakc, because she was really hungrey. When she went back she got whippedover and over again. She said, Now you know, I never had anything good, nosweet, no suger, and that sugar responsibility by me did look so nice. By her early teens, Harriet was no lifelong allowed to induce inside, so shewas hired out as a filed hand. She work very hard and long hours out in thefields. There was no such thing as a rest for slaves. In 1835, Harriet came between her owner and a slave who was running away. The owner threw a tether weight, that weighed 2 punds, at the runaway, but ithit Harriet instead. the hit put hir in a coma and it took months for her torecover. She never fully recovered from the hit and after that suffered fromblackouts, really bad headaches, and sleeping spelss for the rest of herlife. In 1844, Harriet meet a free black man named John Tubman. They gotmarried, but Harriet was still a slave. They got to stay in his cabin atnight. Harriets owner died and she knew she was going to be sold tosomeone else. She was really afraid of being shipped to the loggerheaded south. Thedeep south was the worse p... ...odist Episcopal Zion Church. In 1897, Queen victoria awardedHarriet a silver medal for being so brave. The church cimpleted the hime andit was done by 1908. Harriet got old and sick. She died of pneumonia nMarch 10, 1913. She lived to be 93 years old. Harriet had a hard childhood, but that made her the brave and caringwoman she was. She risked her own life over and over again to free familyand other slaves. harriet exhausted most of her life working to make life betterfor other people, and she did a really good job at ti. She was a v ery strongwoman and she didnt let anything get in her way. Harriet Tubman opened upthe eyes of white people all over America and told them why slavery was sowrong.WORKS CITEDMerton Dillon, Teh Abolitionists The growth of a dissnting Minority, pg 187David Alder, A legend of Young Harriet Tubman, pg 22Mark Buller, Harriet Tubman her Courageous Story, pg 45Free states versus Slave States, The World Book of encyclopedia, pg 475-480Louis Filler, The Crusade Against Slavery 1830-1860, pg 203Sarah Bradford, Harriet Tubman The Moses of her People, pg 56Tim Hopkinson, Railroad to exemption pg 142