Tubman was not a pure pacifist, despite her devout belief in God. She carried a pistol as well as prayed on her journeys and was a friend of John Brown, the legendary hite armed rebel of Harper's Ferry. He called her General Tubman. "hen the Civil ar began, Tubman prophetically stated that it would end slavery, much to the disbelief of her abolitionist friends. General Tubman, who in a sense had been fighting her own small-scale civil war since 1849, became actively involved in the war effort. In addition to caring for wounded colored soldiers, she used her intelligence-gathering skills to help subvert the Confederacy at the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina" (Gill 2004, p.3). Yet the federal government's refusal to grant her a pension for her services during the Civil ar meant that Moses died penniless, in her nineties. Tubman's legacy came not in the love shown to…...
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Works Cited
Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. First Edition.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
Gill, Tiffany. "Harriet Tubman: The Lives of a Historical Fugitive." The Crisis.
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery as Harriet Ross, around 1819 in Maryland. For her work as an Underground Railroad conductor, during which she freed many slaves, she is affectionately known as the "Moses of Her People." he was thus a type of savior who slaves hoped would rise to set them free (Library of Congress). Her extraordinary spirit and courage served as an inspiration not only for the slaves at the time, but also for many who would learn of her life many years afterwards.
As a slave, Harriet Tubman's life was one of regular abuse and unremitting hardship. At the age of 13 for example, her attempt to save a fellow slave from punishment was rewarded with a blow to the head with a two-pound iron weight (Civil War Biographies). This resulted in periodic blackouts for the rest of her life, although Harriet did not let this deter her…...
Harriet Tubman: the Making of a Hero
There are people who are way before the times that they are born into and must live in.
A shining example of this is the woman Harriet Tubman, who led the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800's, freeing over 70 people in her 13 trips to the south. [1]
hat was it about this remarkable woman that gave her the strength and courage to risk her life time after time, and then to help so many others to find their freedom also?
Let's look at the key characteristics of this person, to find just what she was made of:
Her childlessness.
She did not have children with John Tubman in their 4 yrs. Of marriage.
"we do know that her childlessness greatly increased her chances for successful escape and made her later Underground Railroad and war work more easily possible." [2]
Her determination not to be 'sold down south', as her two…...
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Works Cited
Bradford, Sarah. Harriet Tubman: the Moses of her People. New York: Corinth Books, 1961.
Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
Humez, Jean M. Harriet Tubman: the Life and the Life Stories .
Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
It had been built on land which Tubman had actually purchased and which adjoined her own property in Auburn. During her time in the home she told many stories to whoever would listen regarding her adventures and all that she had done in her life.
When she passed away, she was buried with full military honors (Larson, 2004). In honor of her there is a memorial plaque at the courthouse in Auburn, New York, and she is also further honored every March 10th, which is the day of her death. She has been commemorated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on that day as well, and a ship bearing the name SS Harriet Tubman was launched in 1944 (Larson, 2004). In 1978 the United States Postal Service issued a stamp that commemorated her as well. It was designed by Jerry Pinckney and issued on February 1st of that year…...
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Bibliography
Humez, Jean. (2003). Harriet Tubman: The Life and Life Stories. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Larson, Kate Clifford. (2004). Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine Books.
Anderson, E.M. (2006). Home, Miss Moses. Higganum, CT: Higganum Hill Books.
This book uses an unusual approach to portray an important individual's life. The author uses first-hand accounts of the life and times of Harriet Tubman, so the account is true, but she also "imagines" specific scenes and times, and how Harriet might have acted as she experienced them. This is true fiction, but the author has researched her individual so well that it is almost as if she knows her, and knows how she would react in these situations. That makes it a much more interesting and engaging book, because it is almost as if the reader is right there with Tubman, experiencing what she experienced, and it makes it much easier to read this book and imagine what Tubman experienced throughout her life.
There were many elements of Tubman's life that I had not read about before. For example, I did not know that she lived to be nearly 100…...
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References
Lowry, Beverly. Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Beverly Lowry. Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life. New York: Doubleday, 2007, 194.
John Tubman was one such individual who had a substantial influence upon the life of Harriet Tubman. They were married as teens in Maryland, Clinton notes that their early marriage was filled with "happiness and repose, they loved each other tenderly and with great passion." Little has been known about the relationship between these two individuals, through Clinton's diligent research she paints a picture of a happy couple torn apart through their conflicting moral values. John Tubman was content to live out his life on the farm; he felt that despite the conditions under which he lived, they were not as worse as comparable circumstances at other farms. His indecisiveness when it came to his personal freedom ultimately led him to adamantly refuse to run away with Harriet. When Harriet Tubman fled to Canada without her husband, it signified a tremendous turning point in her life. Clinton very carefully…...
Staff has also made it clear to parents that they are welcome at the school anytime.
Studies have demonstrated that parents have a significant impact on the child's learning process (National Center for Family Literacy, 1995) and this has definitely proven to be the case at Harriet Tubman. However, initial efforts to include the family and the community once again raised questions about teacher training, this time in the area of teamwork where the teacher would have to engage in a three-way partnership with the principal, other teachers and parents. This concern was addressed in the mentor teacher training program.
Educators must bridge the gap between education in the classroom and real-life situations. Regardless of qualifications in subject areas, teachers still fail to conform to the realities of the classroom. The majority of novice teachers struggle during their first year and quit. Colleges and universities need to create a seminar or…...
Essay Topic Examples
1. Harriet Tubman: The Journey from Slavery to Freedom:
This essay would explore the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, focusing on her transformation from a slave to a conductor on the Underground Railroad. It would detail her brave escapes, the missions she led to rescue others, and the lasting impact of her work on the abolition movement and the Civil War.
2. The Tactical Genius of Harriet Tubman in the Underground Railroad:
Discuss the intricate escape strategies and methods of communication Harriet Tubman utilized in her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. This essay would analyze her leadership qualities, use of geographic knowledge, and the risks she took to navigate enslaved people to safety.
3. Harriet Tubmans Advocacy for Womens Suffrage:
An exploration of Harriet Tubman's contributions to the women's suffrage movement, detailing how she fought not only for the liberation of African Americans but also for gender…...
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Primary Sources
Still, William. The Underground Rail Road. Porter & Coates, 1872.
Tubman, Harriet. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. W.J. Moses, Printer, 1869.Bradford, Sarah H. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People. Geo. R. Lockwood & Son, 1886.“Harriet Tubman Papers.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division.Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Testimonies of H. Tubman & Others; executive documents printed by the order of the Senate of the United States. Second session of the thirty-eighth Congress; 1864-\'65.
1. Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad Conductor:
Explore Harriet Tubman\'s role in the Underground Railroad, detailing her multiple trips to the South to lead slaves to freedom, her methods of evasion, and the impact of her work on the abolitionist movement.
2. Harriet Tubman\'s Military Contributions:
Discuss Harriet Tubman\'s service during the Civil War, including her roles as a nurse, spy, and scout for the Union Army, and how her military involvement shaped her legacy.
3. The Spiritual Life of Harriet Tubman:
Analyze how Harriet Tubman\'s deep religious faith influenced her actions, her visions, and her leadership in both the Underground Railroad and her later life.
4. Harriet Tubman\'s ost-War Life and Advocacy:
Examine Tubman\'s life after the Civil War, focusing on her advocacy for women\'s suffrage, her establishment of the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, and her efforts in social reform.
5. Harriet Tubman in opular Culture:
Investigate how Harriet Tubman has been portrayed in…...
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Primary Sources
Primary SourcesHarriet Tubman: The Life and the Life StoriesBradford, Sarah H. Harriet, the Moses of Her People. George R. Lockwood & Son, 1886.
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. Ballantine Books, 2004.Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and HistoryClinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
Real Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman -- Journal Article Review
The stories, myths, and facts surrounding Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad may seem to be a settled matter to the public, but this is far from true (Larson 9). Over the past several decades, historians have been sifting through primary source material for additional information about Tubman's contributions to the Underground Railroad during the Pre-Civil ar period. The routes that Tubman used ran through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York to St. Catharines in Canada. This journal article will examine this new evidence and the arguments presented by Kate Larson to justify her findings and conclusions.
A New Perspective
Larson lists various types of primary source material documenting the Underground Railroad and sounds surprised that historians had, until recently, largely ignored this wealth of information (9-10). These sources revealed that there were scores of men and women who took great risks to ensure that the…...
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Works Cited
Larson, Kate Clifford. "Racing for Freedom: Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad Network through New York." Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 36.1 (2012): 7-33.
Thus, in comparison to King's leadership style of pacifism and quiet strength, Powell's is a style involving the characteristics of confrontation, sacrifice of personal desires for the best interest of the groups, and confidence in the leader. While Powell's leadership style does not make him a better leader than King, it certainly exemplifies the fact that leadership styles must change based on circumstance. King's quiet strength gained him the respect he needed to become a champion of the civil rights movement. Powell's confrontational attitude gave him the motivation and confidence he needed to confront other nations in the name of peace.
Finally, Harriet Tubman's leadership style involved a combination of the styles and characteristics advocated by both King and Powell. Tubman's situation as a slave and eventual leader of the Underground ailroad forced her to accept the confrontational style of Powell to some degree. She displayed both confidence in herself…...
Primary Source Material Analysis: Harriet Tubman
Mrs. Sarah H. Bradford wrote a small book in 1868 for the purpose of raising funds to benefit Harriet Tubman's efforts to buy a house and support herself and her aging parents (Introduction). This book was composed immediately before Bradford set sail for Europe in 1868 and its publication costs were covered by several benefactors. The book is remarkable because it is written by a hite abolitionist and suffragist who had become acquainted with Harriet's work on the Underground Railroad through friends and associates.
The stories that Bradford included in the book were corroborated through independent sources and therefore represent a collection of accounts detailing Harriet's struggle to move her family and other slaves north to freedom in Canada along the Underground Railroad. To substantiate the veracity of these accounts Bradford includes in the preface several letters attesting to Harriet's contributions, including one from Frederick Douglass…...
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Works Cited
Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. 1869. Salem, NH: Ayer Company, 1992. Print.
Tubman, Harriet. "General Affidavit" [Claim of Harriet Tubman: General affidavit of Harriet Tubman Davis regarding payment for services rendered during the Civil War]. The Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives, c. 1898. Web. 9 Sep. 2013. http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/claim-of-harriet-tubman/ .
Nursing & omen's Roles Pre-and-Post Civil ar
The student focusing on 19th century history in the United States in most cases studies the Civil ar and the causes that led to the war. But there are a number of very important aspects to 19th century American history that relate to women's roles, including nursing and volunteering to help the war wounded and others in need of care. This paper delves into the role nurses played in the Civil ar (both Caucasian and Black nurses), the way in which the Civil ar changed the woman's work roles, the role women (both Black and Caucasian) played before, during, and after the war, and the terrible injustices thrust on women of color in a number of instances throughout the 19th century.
The oman's role in America prior to the Civil ar
"A woman's work is never done," is an old maxim but it has never become…...
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Works Cited
Brockett, Linus Pierpont, and Vaughan, Mary C. (1867). Woman's Work in the Civil War: A
Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience. Chicago, IL: Zeigler, McCurdy & Co.
Child, Lydia. (1837). The Family Nurse [or] Companion of the American Frugal Housewife.
Bedford, MA: Applewood Books (originally published by Charles Hendee in Boston).
Technology Is Good agree that technological process is always good. Learning is an important facet of life and without it, we cannot grow. Growth is an important aspect of life. It is human nature to be curious and it is the human spirit to explore. Intelligence increases with each new discovery and with all of the exciting possibilities that technology has to offer, we should look forward with enthusiasm.
This is not to say that, as a society, we will not encounter problems that might arise from the advancement of technology. Just recently, we have seen some of the repercussions of technology with the first so-called cloned human baby. Many people are opposed to technology because of problems just like this. In fact, many people refer to Dr. Frankenstein and his monster whenever technology seems to interfere with moral issues. If we can learn to approach each situation responsibly and sensibly,…...
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The curvilinear forms of the human bodies are framed by the intense angularity of the architectural elements behind them. On the left, a tree provides extra verticality, but both images offer a geometric background that contrasts with the undulating forms of female bodies, drapery, and the softness of the infants. The heads of the mothers in both compositions are where the eye is drawn. Even if slightly off-center, the heads form the thematic midpoint. The Virgin's head is placed slightly higher on the canvas, but in both cases the heads are the emphasis in the composition. Both compositions use monochrome, with no color. The Schongauer engraving depicts the mother Mary and infant Jesus seated on the ground inside an ordinary medieval walled compound; whereas the photograph on the right depicts a Madonna-like image of a black-clad mother smiling with her two happy children.
The silkscreen Warhol self-portrait is rendered in stark…...
To tackle a three-page essay on the meaning of freedom for enslaved people in the United States, it is very important to keep in mind that there was no single idea of freedom. The condition of slaves varied tremendously throughout the United States. Some slaves lived near urban areas and had relatively high amounts of personal autonomy as well as exposure to free people of color, while other slaves were in isolation on plantations and may not ever encounter free people or color or even regularly encounter slaves held captive on other plantations. In addition, men, women,....
Genre theory refers to the use of familiar themes and ideas as a way of signaling to the audience what to expect from a work of fiction. Genre theory can be used in various types of fiction and is often discussed when talking about both literature and movies. Genre theory can provide a good springboard for analysis of a particular work, because works can exemplify genres, deviate from genres, or even flip genres completely upside down. As fictional works have developed, genres have become more specific. Genres were initially very broad, both....
Harriet Tubman has always been a great choice for an essay topic because her life story is dynamic, interesting, and incredibly inspiring. Born into slavery, Tubman not only escaped, but also risked her own freedom returning to the South in order to help others escape from slavery using the Underground Railroad. She deserves respect as one of the country’s leading freedom fighters, but it took decades for her story to be fully told. A full-length movie describing her life was only released in 2020 and while most people recognize her as a....
Certainly! Here are five potential essay topics related to Harriet Tubman:
1. The Leadership and Activism of Harriet Tubman: Explore the ways in which Harriet Tubman's leadership and activism contributed to the abolitionist movement and the fight for civil rights.
2. Harriet Tubman's Role in the Underground Railroad: Analyze Harriet Tubman's contributions to the Underground Railroad and the impact her actions had on the lives of enslaved individuals seeking freedom.
3. Harriet Tubman and the Women's Rights Movement: Discuss Harriet Tubman's involvement in the women's rights movement and her advocacy for gender equality in addition to racial equality.
4. The Legacy of Harriet Tubman:....
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