Transcript Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman
Presentation created by Robert Martinez
Primary Content Source: War, Terrible War by Joy Hakim
Images as cited.
Harriet Tubman never knew for sure when
she was born, few people recorded slaves’
birthdays. But it was in Maryland,
approximately 1820.
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Her owner considered her a problem child.
He sent her off to work when she was six.
He got the wages, she did the work. She
was sent to dust and sweep and tend a
baby.
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When Harriet didn’t dust well she beat her.
Hard. When the baby cried, Harriet was
supposed to rock her and make her stop
crying. Sometimes little Harriet fell asleep.
Her mistress beat her. Hard.
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Harriet ran away. But she didn’t know
where to go, so she hid in a pig pen. Living
with pigs may have been easier than living
with cruel humans, but she didn’t have
anything to eat except the potato peelings
the pigs ate.
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Soon she was starving and had to go back.
This time her mistress beat her so hard she
carried scars for the rest of her life. Now
Harriet was too sick to work at all….
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….so she was sent back home. Her mother
and father nursed her back to health. The
master sent her out to work again, this time
to a house where the woman was a weaver
and the man a hunter.
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She was sent to check the hunter’s traps.
She had to wade through cold water. One
day she said she was too sick to go. The
hunter didn’t believe her. Harriet had the
measles and bronchitis.
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After going in the cold water she almost
died. She was sent back home again. Again
her parents cared for her, but her throat
had been damaged. After that she always
had a low, husky voice.
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She was happy to be back home with her
parents and her 10 brothers and sisters.
The slave owner could see that she was no
good to hire out, so he sent her to work in
the fields.
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Of course, slaves couldn’t go to school, so
no one taught Harriet to read or write, but
she learned to listen and to remember, and
she soon had an unusual memory.
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She learned that a few slaves were freed by
their masters. She learned that others ran
away north, and found freedom. She
learned that if a slave tried to escape and
was caught, he would be whipped,
branded, and sold.
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The slave would be sold deep south, to
cotton plantations where life was even
harder for blacks than it was in Maryland
and there was little chance of escape.
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Harriet learned that some people, black
and white, helped escaping blacks. They
were part of something called the
“Underground Railroad.” It wasn’t a real
railroad, although Harriet thought it was
when she first heard of it.
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The Underground Railroad was a way to get
north. It was a series of places where
blacks would find help. The places, houses,
barns, and boats, were called “stations.”
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People who traveled the route were called
“passengers.” People who led them were
“conductors.”
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One day Harriet was in a store. An overseer
was there. Suddenly he yelled at a slave
who was running away. The overseer threw
a lead weight at the running slave. The
weight hit Harriet, right in the forehead. She
passed out. For months she lay
unconscious….
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….Everyone thought she would die. For the
rest of her life she had fainting spells and
times when she would fall asleep and no
one could wake her.
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She was sent to work with her father, who
was one of the most trusted slaves on the
plantation. He was in charge of a
woodcutting operation. Harriet soon
learned to cut trees as easily as the
strongest of men.
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Her father taught her the ways of the
woods. He taught her to walk softly, as the
Native Americans did. He showed her the
plants she could eat, and the ones that
were poisonous.
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Then she met a white woman who said she
could help her. Harriet guessed that the
woman was part of the Underground
Railroad. She guessed right.
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Soon, Harriet escaped North, to freedom,
she didn’t feel free without her family and
friends. So she went back and got them. She
got all of her brothers and sisters and her
parents. It took many dangerous trips.
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She didn’t stop with just her family. She
became the most famous conductor on the
Underground Railroad. She is said to have
led 300 blacks to freedom.
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Harriet Tubman was daring and ingenious
and soon there was a huge reward for her
capture. Often she wore disguises.
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She made Northerners think differently
about slavery. The blacks who escaped on
the Underground Railroad told of children
being taken from their parents. They
showed scars from whippings.
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When the Civil War began she was asked to
help the Union army. She went behind
enemy lines as a scout and spy.
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After the war, Queen Victoria of England,
heard of Harriet Tubman and wrote her a
letter inviting her to England for a visit.
Harriet didn’t have the money to go. Little
Harriet Tubman had become famous.
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