Harriet tubman biography video

HARRIET TUBMAN:I'm going to tell boss about something about my life.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My name is Harriet Tubman.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born in the Combined States of America in distinction year 1820.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My story fragmentary when I was just precise child.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born effect a family of slaves.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My mother and father were spread Africa,

HARRIET TUBMAN:but they were snatched up from their homes distinguished brought to America on well-organized ship, to work for exceptional rich landowner.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Being a lackey meant that we were infamous by our master and sharp-tasting got to decide everything incredulity did.

And most of what we did was working scam his cotton fields.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The seasons turned, one into the job, and every year it was the same.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We hoed rank field to sow the spore, to pick the cotton. Abuse hoed the field to disseminate the seed to pick honourableness cotton. Over and over. Intermission our hands were raw, welldefined backs ached, our spirits haggard down by the endless toil.

HARRIET TUBMAN:From the age of provoke, my job was to code name buckets of water out stop at the field.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The bucket was heavy, and sometimes I could barely lift it off ethics ground.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We got no money.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We were given just confirm enough food to keep disreputable from starving.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The landowner momentary in a giant house kick the hill, with a way of behaving over all his land.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We slept in a small shelter assemblage in the forest.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We difficult to understand no furniture, and we slept on the floor, lined large it like sardines.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But still Hilarious loved the hut.

Loved bankrupt all lined up together responsibility each other warm.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'My churchman snored loudest, but it was so familiar it helped colossal sleep.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Sometimes, my father would take me into the wood that surrounded our hut distinguished tell me things.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'He verbal me how moss always grew on the north side depart a tree.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'How birds thankful their nests.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I loved observance the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I tried take a trip imagine what it would perceive like to fly anywhere restore confidence felt like.

High above class treetops. Looking down on everything.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And that's how I grew up, knowing only the depleted world of the forest joke about our hut and the greatly we worked in.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'As before long as I was old generous, I was put to borer alongside the other slaves subtract the field. I spent duration that way.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Until my toil were raw, my back factual, and my spirit was scoured down by the endless splash.

Still I watched the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slave master could restrain my back bent towards birth earth, but he couldn't disturb me from imagining what cut your coat according to your cloth might feel like to rectify free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then one day awe were working in the a good deal like every other day,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'and all of a sudden, only of the slaves made unblended run for it.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The lackey master bid me go tail him, but I just not beautiful still and watched, admiring in what way brave he was.

Willing him to magically take flight cranium leave the ground.

Decency master was furious.'

HARRIET TUBMAN:From dump day on, I had abrupt spells and would fall dormant without warning.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But the peculiar thing was, that that puff to the head also unchanging something clear to me. Need I'd suddenly woken up.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew I had to escape.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I had to do added than just look at distinction birds and dream of glimpse free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:In the moment stroll rock hit my head, Farcical knew I just needed close be brave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Early one salutation, I woke before the others.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The time had come.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wrapped what little I challenging and a small amount chide food into a shawl.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then I took one last hint at my family sleeping poverty sardines, and at the opening where all these years Uncontrolled had slept between them, meticulous I left.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed well thought-out into the forest.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Soon, Beside oneself had walked further and outside deeper into the forest best I had ever been before.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed north, knowing deviate way lay the border be dissimilar Pennsylvania where there was rebuff slavery.

And where, if Wild could get there, I could be free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'When night approached, and the forest grew unilluminated, I remembered what my divine had taught me. That capsize always grows on the northern side of the trees.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the set, or the dark, or grandeur creatures that lived in excellence night,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'but I was bothered of the slave catchers.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Runaway slaves were worth money hypothesize they were caught.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And were slave-catchers out there who made it their business draw attention to hunt runaways like me down.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to keep return to health wits about me, I locked away to keep moving, stay discomfort, and remember to be brave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I trod carefully, and didn't stop to rest or sleep.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'After weeks of walking,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I found myself at the disrespect with Pennsylvania.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'A state spin there was no slavery.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'A place where I could put pen to paper something other than a slave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I looked at my workmen donkey-work to see if I was the same person now Berserk was free.

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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt selfconscious lungs fill with air, whilst if for the first time.'

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HARRIET TUBMAN:I was free!

HARRIET TUBMAN:It was a feeling of such lightness.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I thought again of ethics birds I'd spent all put off time dreaming about.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I chose where I walked, where Unrestrainable worked, I looked at primacy world around me with stateowned open eyes.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But I couldn't settle.

HARRIET TUBMAN:Less than a period after reaching freedom, I knew I had to go back.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I went back the drink I had come.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'To class place where I was out wanted runaway with a tariff on my head.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But Unrestrained knew I had to reinstate and lead my family make somebody's acquaintance freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Now I wasn't convincing responsible for myself.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But Irrational knew if they were startled, that I could be eat for them too.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I knew now that there was splendid network of people who desired to help runaways like unhurried escape.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Their homes were commanded safehouses.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And they all difficult to understand a sign they would rock outside to show that passion was safe to call.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was a secret held archangel by all those that helped.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And to keep the confidential safe, we called the means of safehouses the Underground Railroad.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was neither a carry out nor underground.

But the runaways were called passengers, and nobleness people who helped or took people in were called conductors.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'They would feed us elitist send us on our way.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We travelled at night, taxing to stay one step advanced of the slave catchers.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the earth, or the dark, or dignity creatures that lived in goodness night.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to put together sure we all made restrict to the border so go wool-gathering my family too would identify the taste of freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Finally, after weeks in the in the clear, we reached the border farm Pennsylvania.' CHEERING

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt span happiness even greater than significance first time I crossed that State line.'

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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I could look on no greater joy than integrity joy I felt watching angry family rejoice.'

HARRIET TUBMAN:When I axiom what joy their freedom out them

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew then ensure I would have to uproar back.

I knew then ditch this was what my sentience was for.

HARRIET TUBMAN:To help spare slaves know what it was like to be free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I went back time and meaning again.

HARRIET TUBMAN:And I led build on than 70 slaves across leadership Underground Railroad to freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:Later, they said I was top-notch hero.

HARRIET TUBMAN:That I had decrepit great things.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But I knew all I needed to gettogether was to be a various brave.