Why Did Harriet Tubman Want To Be Free

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Harriet Tubman was born as a slave. She was a slave that was destined to escape. She would conduct the Underground Railroad. Escaping is a really bad thing to do, but if you succeed you are golden, because if you got caught you would be wiped or even killed, Harriet Tubman risked her life to save strangers she didn’t even know them but, she still freed them.

Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland as a slave. She was the eighth child born into slavery. Throughout her years as a slave, Tubman’s masters would physically punish her if she failed to do what they asked her to[Biography.com]. This is one reason why Harriet Tubman decided that she wanted to be free. In 1844, Harriet Tubman married a freed black man named John Tubman. After she married

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