The savior of so many mordant hard workers during the 1700s, the black Moses of in all slaves. The person I am referring to is the late Harriet Tubman. She single presentedly take 300 slaves from station to station and finally to freedom, 300 black slaves. She was born in 1820 on a plantation in the state of Maryland. She despised slavery from the start and was put to endure on the plantation as a field hand at the age of 7. Her and her fellow slaves would chop wood, cut hay, and administer the land from morning until night. At the age of sixteen she helped another(prenominal) black slave escape from her plantation. This infuriated her masters and was enamored over the head with an iron weight, rendering her unconscious for a couple days. When she regained consciousness she was plagued with splitting headaches and a type of narcolepsy for the quietus of her life. Harriet would fall asleep uncontrollably at any duration weather she was doing something or not, she would even fall unconscious in mid sentence, and would then wake up and keep doing what she was doing as if nothing had happened. In some states slavery was outlawed, this gave a good haven for slaves to escape to.
Harriet herself fled to Pennsylvania with help from the Underground Railroad.
She approach many problems on her way to freedom especially encounters with amplitude hunters because of the $12 000 reward for her capture, dead or a live. ane of these encounters happened on a train when she sat across from dickens bounty hunters. The two bounty hunters had a suspicion that she was the slave that they were looking for, but she fooled them by pulling a have out of her bag and starting to act like she was...
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