yr9_Harriet_Tubman



** __ HARRIET TUBMAN __ **
  My name is Harriet Tubman.    I was born in 1820 and died the 10th of March 1913. I was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War. During the U.S Civil War, Harriet worked for the Union Army, as a cook and a nurse, and then as an armed Scout and Spy. An illness overtook her and so I was sent to a home for elderly African-Americans that I helped open years earlier. Past her death in 1913 I became an image of American bravery and liberty. I made my autobiography //__Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People__// (1869)//.// By making that book I earned money and also with the money that I got from the United States Army, she bought a house in Auburn, New York and turned it into a home for the old and needed people.  **I helped to get the slave trade abolished in the following sorts of ways...**  I brought relatives with her out of the state and then guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. I helped guide fugitives further north into Canada, and helped the slaves that had just been freed find work.   ** I think my contributions were particularly important because without me... ** There wouldn’t have been black people working, and all those slaves that I gave freedom to, would have died or have been suffering till their elderly deaths. Also they wouldn’t have known what were freedom and the feeling of being free. Without me and my earnings that home in Auburn, wouldn’t have been a home for the aged and needed people, it would have been a normal house where people would have lived. I was also a conductor of the Underground Railroad that made her especially useful as a scout during the conflict. I was great abolitionist woman.
 * Here are some key details about my life... **

