Harriet Tubman's Life During The Industrial Revolution

Quakers/Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman “If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there is shouting after you, keep going. Don’t even stop. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going,” -Harriet Tubman. During the Industrial Revolution slavery was an event everyone was involved in. It was a great change in our nation and many things occurred because of it. Also expansion and traveling was a big adventure at the time. People traveled a great distance and suffered from many hardships to travel to California. The Quakers traveled to England and to many southern and northern states to try to spread their faith. The Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman were two extreme changes to the future of slavery itself. The Quakers, Underground Railroad, and Harriet Tubman were a great part of the Industrial Revolution because they helped to change so many things. The Quakers were a group of people who journeyed to spread their faith and stand for what is right. The Quakers were founded by George Fox in England in the 1650’s ("Christianity: Religious Society of Friends [Quakers]"). Their group was also known as “The

Harriet was born a slave along with her seven brothers and sister (Bradford 2). She escaped Philadelphia in 1849 and went back to the south for her family (Bradford 3). She accomplished many things like saving over 1,000 slaves from the south (Bradford 4). She was also the conductor of the Underground Railroad which helped her take over a dozen trips to the south to save more slaves (Bradford 4). Another thing she accomplished was becoming a speaker for an anti-slavery circuit (“Secrets of the Underground Railroad” 6). Harriet saved and changed more lives everyday and they were slave’s and white people’s lives too. She really changed the future too, like the Civil War ending slavery all