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Not only is she a historical figure but she’s also a symbolic one too. She set high standards for herself that helped get her family and friends to safety. Safety to them back during Harriet’s time was being free. No one enjoyed being a slave and having to listen to their master and do whatever they’d been told to do. This woman was known as Harriet Tubman. She paved the way for many African Americans before and after her time. The accomplishments she made are still recognized today, mainly in the month of February due to it being Black History Month.

Harriet Tubman was born in about 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland (Maxwell 2211). She was one of children (Maxwell 2210). Like other children during her time, she had no formal education and worked on a plantation as a child. On the plantation she was known as Harriet Ross, her family called her Araminta, or Minty, which was given to her by her mother. Poor Harriet faced permanent neurological damage for the rest of her life after her owner struck her in the head with a two-pound lead weight when she tried to interfere in an altercation with a fleeing slave and the current slave owner/master (Maxwell 2211). Later on in her life, she consulted a lawyer to see if the death of her mother’s master would entitle her siblings along with herself and her mother to freedom under the law. She was told that she would’ve had a good case but too much time had passed since the former owner’s death to expect the court to grant her freedom (Outman 390).

In 1844 Harriet married John Tubman, who was a free black man at the time (Calvin 480). She didn’t gain freedom through her marriage even though her husband was free (Maxwell 2211). She learned that John was free because his master died without leaving a will’ he also had no children to take his place at being master. Later on in the year, she used some of the money she had earned to hire a lawyer. She wanted someone to research her family’s history in order to find out if her family was being kept as slaves legally (“Harriet, Tubman” 479). In 1849, she worked alone to escape to freedom. Her husband didn’t accompany her because he didn’t want to leave Maryland, so she left him behind on her journey to freedom (Maxwell 2211). To support herself, she worked as a cook (Outman 390). After being in Philadelphia for two years, Harriet returned home to her husband. Come to find out that he had already remarried (Maxwell 2211).

While living in Auburn (hometown), Tubman continued her work in the black community by taking in orphans and the elderly (Maxwell 2212). In 1908, she donated land in Auburn to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The home was built to provide shelter for those who were sick and elderly. It gave them the feeling that they were safe (“Harriet, Tubman” 478). She became involved in the abolitionist movement. This movement was created to stop slavery. Harriet and many other slaves didn’t like the idea of feeling like they belong to someone who knew nothing about them. She maintained a legendary status among many other slaves and abolitionists before and after her time (Maxwell 2211).

She recued hundreds of enslaved people in the southern United States escape to freedom (Calvin 480). Her first mission in 1950 was to Baltimore, Maryland to rescue her sister and her children from bondage (Maxwell 2211). She made nineteen dangerous into slave territory and helped more than 300 slaves gain their freedom (“Harriet, Tubman” 473). By the time 1857 had come, she had guided her entire family north (Outman 393). Harriet became a famous leader (conductor) of the Underground Railroad, which was a secret organization that helped slaves flee to Canada or other free states (Calvin 480). Her life was devoted to helping her fellow African American friends and family. With that being said, she helped care for newly freed slaves (Outman 394). During the Civil War she served as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union Army (Calvin 480). In 1911 when she grew frail, she moved into the house that she donated money to build. Two years later (1913) on March 10, she died of pneumonia (“Harriet, Tubman 478).

Harriet Tubman’s life was full of accomplishments and struggles to freedom. In the end, she reached her goal. She put others before herself which more people should learn to do in the modern days. She thought of people around her and what she could do to help them gain the freedom that she felt they deserved.Do you think this paper would get me a passing grade?
Be sure to say who your talking about in the first paragraph, instead of waiting till the 2nd. Over all It seems like a well written, researched report.