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United States Army Harriet Tubman
1,137 wordsHarriet Ross Tubman was an African American who escaped slavery and then showed runaway slaves the way to freedom in the North for longer than a decade before the American Civil War. During the war she was as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that she kept working for rights for blacks and women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children born to Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. She later t...
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Fugitive Slave Law Compromise Of 1850
1,036 wordsIntroduction. At the close of the Mexican War, in 1848, the United States owned a lot of territory without local government (all the land now included in New Mexico, Arizona, and California was then unsettled). Then in 1848 gold was found in California. Thousands of people joined the gold rush and in a few months about 80, 000 of them had settled in California to hunt for gold. To keep control of these settlements, an government was needed, so California asked to be admitted to the Union as a fr...
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Abolition Of Slavery Frederick Douglass
2,285 wordsFrederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime in 1817; like many slaves, he is unsure of his date of birth. His mother was owned by a white man named Captain Anthony, who likely was Douglass father. Captain Anthony was a clerk for a rich man named Colonel Lloyd. For slaves, life on Lloyds plantation was brutal: they received little food, almost no clothes, no beds, and were constantly overworked and exhausted. Slaves who broke rules, willfully or not, were often beaten or whipped, sometimes ...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Toms Cabin
3,650 wordsThe woman credited with sparking the Civil War came to Christ at thirteen, during one of her father s sermons. She wrestled throughout her eighty-five years with questions and spiritual conflicts for she endured grave trials: her mother died while Harriet was a very young child; her husband, though an erudite theologian, could not provide financially and suffered bouts of poor health; she lost four children tragically; and she enjoyed the acclaim of the rich and powerful of her generation. In sp...
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Harriet Tubman Fugitive Slaves
1,080 wordsHarriet Tubman was an African American who fled slavery and then guided runaway slaves to freedom in the North for more than a decade before the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). During the war she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. In later years she continued to work for the rights of blacks and women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She was one of 11 children born to slaves. She later adopted her mothers first name. Harriet was put to work at the ...
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