Many of the troubles she faced throughout her life only made her a better person. Harriet Tubman faced many difficult obstacles. When she was a little girl she was struck in the head with a heavy lead weight, this caused her to have severe headaches frequently. Throughout this paper, you will learn about her early life, when and how she died and why she was considered “Moses” to the slaves of her day. Harriet was born around 1820 to 1825. She …show more content…
This law declared that slaves could be captured in the North and brought back to slavery in the South. With this railroad, she guided 11 fugitives towards the North. There is also evidence of Tubman guiding her group of slaves to freedom, and then meeting at Frederick Douglass 's home on their way there. Another person she met was John Brown. Brown was a leader in the movement to finalize slavery. He called her “General Tubman,” because she was one of the best and bravest people in America at that …show more content…
All her hard work paid off after she became free and became well known as a famous “conductor” for the Underground Railroad. This hidden railroad helped slaves escape from slavery in a reticent way. It was a trail made up of a network of secret routes and safe houses. Harriet Tubman Davis will always be remembered for her courage, for her strength and, most of all, for her brave consecration to the freedom of all people. "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; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me" (Bradford, S. H. (1993). Harriet Tubman: The Moses of her people. Bedford, MA: Applewood