Harriet Tubman

When looking for a site for this Critical Core signature assignment I stumbled across us.history.org. I had never used us.history.org before, however I found the site quite insightful. While taking history, this site can help students write biographies, research papers, and give further information on topics being taught. When looking over the site I felt…

On a cool, crisp Saturday morning, a mother watching her eight-year old son play in a peewee football game becomes dowsed with fear. The safety of her precious little boy is unpredictably risked every play of the game. Even with this large fear for her son’s safety, this extraordinarily loving mother allows her young little…

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The US had a huge break and economic boom, from the time of the revolution through the time of the reconstruction, however the great success which mainly emerged from cotton and tobacco plantations in the 1700s has dark history behind it, written in death, blood and tears. For it was on account of brutal acts…

According to Robert F. Kennedy,” Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” He is attempting to say not all of us can have the…

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County on the Eastern shore of Maryland, on the plantation of Edward Brodas. Her birth name was Araminta, and she was called Minty until she changed her name to Harriet in her early teen years. The reason why she changed her name was because she wanted to…

Railroad. I was in the sixth grade and eleven years old. My social studies teacher showed the class a film about the network of people and Harriet Tubman who helped slaves escape to freedom through a passage to the North. She explained how Harriet Tubman who was a runaway slave herself, risked her life to…

Whipped, chained, and beaten were commonly exchanged words among American slaves throughout the 19th century. Day after day in a world filled with torture and pain, slaves suffered servile lives under the feet of an overseer. During these times, when freedom and liberty were merely the topics of dreams, one outstanding slave named Harriet Tubman…

Being a black woman has been a struggle for many generations. You have consistent pressure to act a certain way and if you don’t act that way your acting black. It feels like carrying the weight for black history and all the black women that come after you. For African American women race, gender, and…