Essays on Harriet Tubman

Throughout history, African Americans have continually had to fight for equal treatment, a very controversial issue. Without early abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman, Dred Scott, and Frederick Douglass, African American rights would not have been established as soon as they were. As well as early...

“Go on or die.” Is something a woman named Harriet Tubman would say from the story “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad” by Ann Petry. Harriet Tubman is a courageous woman who helps slaves gets their freedom back by escorting them through an “underground-railroad”...

In the nineteenth century, there were hundreds of abolitionists who helped slaves escape their hostile owners, but there was one woman who went above and beyond to save slaves. This woman’s name is Araminta Harriet Ross, most commonly known as Harriet Tubman. Her actions saved...