Harriet Tubman: My Role Model by Lindsay

 Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Marylands  Dorchester  country around 1820.She escaped captivity at the age of 25.She returned to the south 19 times to help other slaves flee north.Harriet Tubman  led more than 300 people from slavery to freedom in the mid-1800s. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Fredrick Douglass , in all of her journeys she  “never lost a single passenger.”

Around 1844 she married a free black named, John Tubman, and took his last name.(She was born Araminta Ross; she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.)In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Harriet  thought to run away. She left  one night by foot. With some assistance from a friendly white woman, Harriet  was on her way. She followed the North Star every night, making her way to Pennsylvania and then to Philadelphia, where she got a job  and saved her money. The next  year she returned to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister’s two children to freedom. She made the dangerous trip back to the South  after to rescue her brother and two other men. On her third return she went after her husband, only to find he had married another woman. Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom and escorted them to the North.

Harriet returned to the South again and again. She discovered  clever techniques that helped make her “forays” successful, including using her master’s horse and buggy for the first part of the journey; leaving on a Saturday night, since runaway notices couldn’t be placed in newspapers until Monday morning; turning about and heading south if she encountered possible slave hunters; and carrying a drug to use on a baby if its crying might put the fugitives in danger. Harriet  even carried a gun which she used to threaten the fugitives if they became too tired or decided to turn back,  she told them, “You’ll be free or die.”

Harriet Tubman is my role model because she made a huge difference in history and she saved slaves lives!She should be awarded the Nobel Piece prize.I wish I could go back in time and physically meet her.What do you think of Harriet Tubman?Is she your role model too?If you met her in person, what would you say?