What makes Harriet Tubman really important?
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c.1820—1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. Returning to the South more than a dozen times, she is generally credited with leading more than 300 slaves (including her parents and brother) to freedom, sometimes forcing the timid ahead with a loaded revolver. She became a speaker on the anti-slavery lecture circuit and a friend of the principal abolitionists, and John Brown almost certainly confided his Harpers Ferry plan to her. During the Civil War, Tubman attached herself to the Union forces in coastal South Carolina, serving as a nurse, cook, laundress, scout, and spy, and in 1863 she played an important part in a raid that resulted in the freeing of more than 700 slaves. At Auburn, N.Y., her home for many years after the war, the Cayuga co. courthouse contains a tablet in her honor.
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The importance of attending an HBCU is first of all to surround yourself with successful African Americans outside of the ones that you already know. Secondly, the importance of attending an HBCU is to learn the history of the school and realize that by attending the HBCU you are a part of history in the making. The last reason for the importance of attending an HBCU is to understand the true depths and lengths and sacrifices that African Americans made for and on behalf of higher education. To show that African Americans deserve and are capable of obtaining a sound, quality education and that it is the responsibility of those who have attended HBCU's to go out and become productive, contributing members of society.
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Yes, It is the life that is important. More important than how that life came to be.
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Harriet Ross was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Given the names of her two parents, both held in slavery, she was of purely African ancestry. She was raised under harsh conditions, and subjected to whippings even as a small child. At the age of 12 she was seriously injured by a blow to the head, inflicted by a white overseer for refusing to assist in tying up a man who had attempted escape. \n\nAt the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American. Five years later, fearing she would be sold South, she made her escape. \n\nTubman was given a piece of paper by a white neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination. Following the route to Pennsylvania, she initially settled in Philadelphia, where she met William Still, the Philadelphia Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad. With the assistance of Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society, she learned about the workings of the UGRR. \n\nIn 1851 she began relocating members of her family to St. Catharines, (Ontario) Canada West. North Street in St. Catharines remained her base of operations until 1857. While there she worked at various activities to save to finance her activities as a Conductor on the UGRR, and attended the Salem Chapel BME Church on Geneva Street. \n\nAfter freeing herself from slavery, Harriet Tubman returned to Maryland to rescue other members of her family. In all she is believed to have conducted approximately 300 persons to freedom in the North. The tales of her exploits reveal her highly spiritual nature, as well as a grim determination to protect her charges and those who aided them. She always expressed confidence that God would aid her efforts, and threatened to shoot any of her charges who thought to turn back.\n\nWhen William Still published The Underground Railroad in 1871, he included a description of Harriet Tubman and her work. The section of Still's book captioned below begins with a letter from Thomas Garret, the Stationmaster of Wilmington, Delaware. Wilmington and Philadelphia were on the major route followed by Tubman, and by hundreds of others who escaped from slavery in Maryland. For this reason, Still was in a position to speak from his own firsthand knowledge of Tubman's work.\n\nOn the road between Syracuse and Rochester, would be found a number of sympathetic Quakers and other abolitionists settled at Auburn. Here also was the home of US Senator and former New York State Governor William H. Seward. Sometime in the mid-1850s, Tubman met Seward and his wife Frances. Mrs. Seward provided a home for Tubman's favorite niece, Margaret, after Tubman helped her to escape from Maryland. In 1857, the Sewards provided a home for Tubman, to which she relocated her parents from St. Catharines. This home was later sold to her for a small sum, and became her base of operations when she was not on the road aiding fugitives from slavery, and speaking in support of the cause.\n\nTubman was closely associated with Abolitionist John Brown, and was well acquainted with the other Upstate abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Jermain Loguen, and Gerrit Smith.She worked closely with Brown, and reportedly missed the raid on Harper's Ferry only because of illness.\n\nAfter the outbreak of the Civil War, Tubman served as a soldier, spy, and a nurse, for a time serving at Fortress Monroe, where Jefferson Davis would later be imprisoned. While guiding a group of black soldiers in South Carolina, she met Nelson Davis, who was ten years her junior. Denied payment for her wartime service, Tubman was forced, after a bruising fight, to ride in a baggage car on her return to Auburn.\n\nAfter the close of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman returned to Auburn, NY. There she married Nelson Davis, and lived in a home they built on South Street,
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Very Important - They can determine everything a person believes, accepts as a part of life, how they mature, & their respect for humanity & environment.  \n\nIt's a rare person who overcomes an abusive, ignorant, sheltered life. It is also a rare person who doesn't think they are better than others if they had it all in life.
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Harriet Tubman\nAKA Araminta Harriet Greene\n\nBorn: c. 1820\nBirthplace: Dorchester County, MD\nDied: 10-Mar-1913\nLocation of death: Auburn, NY\nCause of death: Pneumonia\nRemains: Buried, Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, NY
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I just visited the battlefield in Vicksburg last month.  The city was important in the Civil War because of the Mississippee River.  The Union needed to control the river so the South could not get supplies.  That's why the Union army attacked Vicksburg.
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This website has a huge list of women of the present and the past. Please remember that there can be a big difference between "famous" and "important." Also, remember that "important" is relative.
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You choose your job and career.  With that, in America slavery does not exist.  Furthermore, spare me the liberal babel that people are forced into jobs because of their upbringing.  Everyone in this country has the ability to utilize the assets that society grants us to better themselves so that they enable themselves to move up the economic ladder.
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I think that public transit if very important even in today's American society.  Public transit provides important transportation to people that are handicapped, college students, poor, or environmentally minded people.  It is important for public trans to remain in America to help keep the American economy and infrastructure strong.
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It was important because it was one of the factors that led to the American Revolution. The American delegates at Pennsylvania came up with the Dec. of Independence to show how they had suffered under British rule, and how they planned to use freedom.\n\nThe Dec. of Indpendence was kind of a guiding light to the soldiers and other citizens of US. It always had colonists thinking of what lie ahead - freedom.
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The Underground Railroad wasn't actually underground. I was merely slaves escaping in the night, leaving the south heading north. It was a route that was taken and they stopped at various people's homes that made up the Underground Railroad. I hope this helps! :)
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In order of importance...\n1...GOD\n2...Husband\n3...Daughter\n\nNow, the reason it is in that order is, I know God is all important and I must get myself right with Him above all else...\n\nMy husband is 2nd because he is living with me and I love him...\n\n3rd is my daughter because she is grown, married, moved away and I don't see her often...\n\nI always try to improve each relationship every year...\nI watch more sermons on TV and go to church once in a while to help my religious life...\n\nI try not to nag or gripe at my husband when he does things that irritate me and I try to tell him I love him more often...\n\nMy daughter I try to see more and be a better mother to her and a grandmother to my grandson...\n\nLike I said earlier, I don't see them often cause they live in another part of the state, but when we do get together, I try to make it good so she has good memories of it...\n\nSo to answer your question, I am really trying to do things right in my present day, not wait to do it later on...
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What's important for the U.S. is to stop thinking in terms of "minorities". I've met many great people who are intelligent, rational, self-sufficient, productive, and hard-working that are NOT on welfare and appreciate their freedom in this country, and they belong to many different races.\n\nLet's stop (a) blaming minorities and, which happens more often, (b) giving minorities special treatment.
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Individual is spelled wrong.\n\nokay as for the intro:\n\n"I had crossed the line. I was free, but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom.  I was a stranger in a strange land."  That quote is from Harriet Tubman, a great lady who was well respected by many. She made it her life's work to be sure others like her, run away slaves, would find someone to welcome them on their journey to freedom.  Harriet Tubman began a secret movement that has come to be known as "The Underground Railroad".\n\nFrom there you can get into what a slave's life was like and how difficult it was to disobey and seek freedom with angry owners and dogs on your trail, knowing death could very well be the price you pay if caught.
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I assume you mean Frederick Douglass?\n\nFrederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. \n\nA brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845. Two years later he bagan publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.\n\nDouglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.
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Uncle Tom's cabin is important because it alerted the people to the conditions of slavery and strengthened the movement toward abolition not only in the north but in England too.