This dilemma is based on the life of Harriet Tubman (1820-1913). She is one of the most courageous people in US History. Tubman escaped from a plantation in Maryland, but she soon received word that her family was in danger. Tubman risked her life by returning to the plantation and guiding her family to freedom in Pennsylvania. 

 

     Over the next ten years, Tubman continued to travel back and forth across the Mason Dixon Line, leading dozens of men and women to freedom. There was a $40,000 bounty on her head, but she was never caught.

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     During the Civil War, Tubman was a nurse and a spy for the Union Army. She would wear a disguise and wander through Confederate-controlled towns, gathering information from enslaved men and women.

 

     After the Civil War, she joined the women's suffrage movement, and she opened a home for elderly African American men and women in New York. When Tubman died, she was buried with full military honors. 

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Sources

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https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/harriet-tubman

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https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman

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​http://www.artnet.com/artists/elizabeth-catlett/in-harriet-tubman-i-helped-hundreds-to-freedom-LFRpySr5TKyAWNXDX2UEaA2

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Keywords

Underground Railroad, Slavery, Mason Dixon Line, Harriet Tubman

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