Harriet Tubman Research Paper

Imagine having to walk from Maryland to Canada. Would you travel the journey if it meant life or death? Harriet Tubman has been on this quest, one of the biggest travels, with 11 people on her side. She was and will always be an inspiration and a hero in very many ways, shapes, and forms.

Harriet Tubman was a heroic leader who was motivated to do the right thing for all of the enslaved African Americans. "Harriet Tubman was a very remarkable woman," states Richard Yarfurough (an English professor at UCLA) from biography.com. Tubman was a very remarkable woman. She led over 1,000 slaves across America without one being found. Tubman's motivation to leave and then later return to the plantation came from her own personal experience. She was hit on the head with a lead object and called sick because of the accident. "Tubman thought she would be sold for being sickly," says Dr. Sherrill

“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 the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven," says while passing the 'border' into the Free States. Tubman wanted every enslaved African American to have that same feeling she had as she passed that border, which is another reason why she had gone back to the plantation to retrieve her family. “Tubman helped Colonel James Montgomery plan a raid to free slaves from plantations along the Combahee,” stated by ‘The National Geographic’. Tubman had to persuade many, enslaved and free, African Americans to join her as spies for a plan to raid plantations to help