Essays on Contemporary History

Bayly, Alexander H. Three Hundred Dollars Reward, 10-19, 1857 Bayly was a slave owner in the 1850’s. The purpose of the poster was for people to look for his runaway slave. He was offering three hundred dollars for his missing slave Lizzie. Lizzie ran off...

Harriet Tubman was a black slave that went through alot in her life. She is a very important person in black history month. Harriet Tubman is one of the most remembered African Americans of all time. She rescued over three hundred slaves and claims to...

Africa has suffered the most from the ravages of slave trade. An estimated 18 million Africans were taken to Europe and the ‘new world’ to meet the increasing demand for slaves. With the colonization of the Americas starting in the 16th century, a new slave...

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, written by Catherine Clinton shows about most courageous women who fought for her freedom and freedom of others. Freedom from slavery was one of the big issue America has faced. American civil war was a fight in United States...

What is an upstander? Well an upstander is someone who does something about a problem instead of just sitting and watching. So for my person in history I choose Harriet Turban, she was born in 1822 Chester CounDorty, and her death was on March 10,...

“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was...

Harriet Tubman was born around 1820 during slavery, she grew up with her mother (Harriet Greene) and her father (ben ross), she also had eight siblings she grew up with, but they got separated because of their slaves owners. Harriet Greene (their mother) tried her...