{"id":889,"date":"2014-02-18T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T00:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mannm\/?p=889"},"modified":"2014-02-19T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:00:36","slug":"harriet-tubman-my-role-model-by-lindsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mannm\/2014\/02\/18\/harriet-tubman-my-role-model-by-lindsay\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman: My Role Model by Lindsay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u00a0Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Marylands \u00a0Dorchester \u00a0country 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 \u00a0led 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 \u00a0“never lost a single passenger.”<\/p>\n

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 \u00a0thought to run away. She left \u00a0one night by foot. With some assistance from a friendly white woman, Harriet \u00a0was on her way. She followed the North Star every night, making her way to Pennsylvania and then to Philadelphia, where she got a job \u00a0and saved her money. The next \u00a0year 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 \u00a0after to rescue her brother and two other men. On her third return\u00a0she 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.<\/p>\n

Harriet returned to the South again and again. She discovered \u00a0clever 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 \u00a0even carried a gun which she used to threaten the fugitives if they became too tired or decided to turn back, \u00a0she told them, “You’ll be free or die.”<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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