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Harriet Tubman Florence Nightingale
1,359 words... York Infirmary for Women and Children. With the help of her sister Emily Blackwell, (also a physician, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska) In 1868 Blackwell opened the Women's Medical College of the New York. In 1869, she helped establish the National Health Society in England. In 1875 she became a professor at the hospital of the London School of Medicine for Women. She was also a part of the anti-slavery society and a member of the Semi-Colon club. She opened the doors for future women who wanted to...
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Harriet Tubman Emancipation Proclamation
486 wordsSlavery was the most common form of forced labor in History. Slavery was very bad and wrong. A slave was treated like property and not like a Human Being and owned by other Human Being's. There were important people that related to Slavery. These people are the one of the most important people in Slave History. First was Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave. She helped a lot of slaves escape by using the Underground railroad. The Underground railroad was a secret network of people ...
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Uncle Tom Cabin William Lloyd Garrison
1,790 wordsSlavery in America can be traced as far back as when Europeans began settling the North American continent. The first town established in the New World was Jamestown in 1607, and the first slave arrived on the continent in 1619. European pioneers that colonized North America brought slaves with them to help settle the new land, work their plantations growing valuable cash crops such as tobacco and sugar, and to cook and clean in their homes. Most people didnt see slavery as a problem at this tim...
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Uncle Toms Cabin Anti Slavery Society
2,426 wordsFamous People of the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant served effectively with Zachary Taylors army at Monterey during the Mexican war. Right when the war began Grant obtained a position on the staff of General George McClellan. During the war he showed courage in both physically and morally manners. In February 1862 Grant captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson with help from the Federal navy. In October he was appointed commander of the Department of Tennessee, and told to take Vi...
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Dream Come True Harriet Tubman
584 wordsFreedom Harriet Tubman was a brave woman, she managed to take eleven slaves to Canada, with no one noticing anything. She also did something that was surprising, she took the gun that she had with her to make a slave stay or to die, We got to go free or die. She didnt allowed a slave to go back while they were traveling because someone might figured that he / she were returning from the running slaves and might have to answer questions. She traveled to different's places to stay like Thomas Garr...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
661 wordsHarriet Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. Her parents were from the Ashanti tribe of West Africa, and they worked as slaves on the Brodas plantation. In addition to producing lumber, Edward Brodas raised slaves to rent and sell. Life was difficult on the plantation, and Harriet was hired out as a laborer by the age of 5. Harriet did not like to work indoors, and she was routinely beaten by her masters. By her early teens, Harriet was no longer allowed to work indoors and was ...
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