Harriet Tubman for Kids

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was a former slave who helped free more than 300 slaves and fought for equal rights for African Americans and women throughout her extraordinary life and this is her story harriet tubman was born In the 1820s Harriet Tubman was born in the state of Maryland, you can see it right here on the map. What was so sad about the state of Maryland was that it allowed something called slavery. Slavery was a terrible system that allowed people to own other people just like property in In this picture you can see how horrible this is.

These people are being sold as if they were their property, but they were people, they were people of incredible value that needed to be respected and shown with dignity, but they were not slavery, it was horrible, unfortunately, Harriet Tubman was born into slavery when she was born they put the name of araminta but they called her minty life as a slave was horrible she worked in the house cleaning and doing errands they treated her terribly they beat her a lot and there were scars that she had for the rest of her life because of the way they treated her an example of their terrible deal sometimes she had to take care of the baby when the baby was sleeping if the baby woke up crying they would spank her they would beat her and like we said some of those scars never went away when she was 12 they moved her to the countryside and things got even worse.

It was at that moment that she suffered a terrible injury: a two-pound metal weight was thrown at her head and hit. She suffered for the rest of her life because of this incident. She had seizures. Sometimes she would simply pass out or fall asleep. She suddenly suffered headaches. It was such a tragic thing that she happened to her Harriet Tubman. She knew she had to escape. She was not well. for people to own other people, she knew that slavery was wrong and was willing to do whatever it took to be free, after a couple of tries, she escaped north to the city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, a state that did not allow slavery.

It was amazing that she was finally free think about how she must have felt that she was finally free from slavery now it was in Philadelphia where she changed her name from minty to harriet harriet was a special name for her because it was her mother's name so I was free and that could have been the end of the story, but that is not the end of the story. This is what is extraordinary about Harriet Tubman. She also wanted to help other people escape. It wasn't just her freedom that mattered to him, he didn't care about her. her own safety she wanted to help other people escape other people's freedom was as important to her as her own so she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad you might be thinking what does that mean what is a conductor a conductor was a guide of the metro railroad the underground railroad was made up of men and women who helped the slaves escape and you could see in this image that these people helped these slaves reach freedom this was illegal and very dangerous the conductors or guides of the underground railroad They would put their own lives at risk and especially Harriet Tubman, who was a former slave, every time she helped save people from slavery, she put her own life at risk and ran the risk of becoming a slave again.

Harriet Tubman didn't use maps to guide people north to freedom, she used the north. she star which is close to Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, by looking at the stars, she was able to know which direction she would go to help these amazing people finally break free. In total, she helped more than 300 slaves escape, which is why she had the nickname Moses. leading so many of her people to freedom in fact, the story of Moses from the Bible was one of the great inspirations for her to help save so many people from slavery. She also fought against slavery by helping the Union Army during the Civil War in which she served as Harriet Tubman, a nurse and spy for the rest of her life, fought for equality not only for African Americans but also for women, arguing that Women should have the right to vote.

She died in 1913, just seven years before women gained the right to vote. Harriet Tubman was honored with monuments and statues and a few years ago it was even announced that Harriet Tubman would appear on the twenty dollar bill. Her courage and strength still inspire millions of people today. Harriet Tubman, a former slave who helped free more than 300 slaves. and she fought for equal rights for African Americans and women, she was selfless, she was not satisfied with being free herself, but she put her own life in danger by being a conductor on the underground railroad and trying to help as many people as possible. possible to find freedom.

Oh, and she did. We mentioned that not one person she helped through the Underground Railroad got lost and did not find freedom, each and every one of them was able to free themselves thanks to her help, not one person got lost and even when they wanted to turn around and go back to slavery she encouraged them to keep going it's amazing she is so amazing thank you for watching this homeschool pop video about harriet tubman and about her life we ​​hope you learned a lot of interesting things and we hope you share them with others because harriet tubman's life is so inspiring