What were the traditional roles of Harriett Ross Tubman work among the slaves.? - harriett for abby winters
Traditional division of labor among slaves Harriet Tubman was a nurse and a laundress during the Civil War in America. It was also a spy, that's certainly not a traditional role-regarded. As an abolitionist who freed over 300 slaves through the Underground Railroad.
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Wrote in "Women" Gail Collins of the United States:
"Harriet Tubman, the granddaughter of Africans, born on a plantation in Maryland, where he both in the field and the house, but he drew the relative freedom of the fieldwork.
In 1849, has over thirty years ago when he whispers that he was about to be sold one, and fled. On the way to Philadelphia, the houses until they enough to make a return trip fund cleaned.
A year after his escape, a slave from his plantation, he heard a noise in the cabin and saw a person dressed as a man. "It's me, Harriet has the number" It's time to go north. All in all, more than nineteen trips to the border. In a rent a car, they have recovered their old parents. In the other eleven slaves took to freedom. She returned to Maryland and pastures and more friends and family in the north - that her husband had remarried, refused the offer to escape. She was an expert in disguises, appears as an older woman orra bum, or a person with mental disorders. He the pain to soothe crying babies, and if someone shows signs of panic threatening finger of the gun which he always carried with him.
It was unusually cool in a crisis. Once, when he saw a former owner, who came to her, he has released several chickens in a market and sets on the hunt when they went unnoticed. Again, when he realized he was from a station of the railway line, they still guessing on board the train to the south right that no one suspects a black woman to travel deep into the territory of the slaves. Usually broadcasts began Monday night, gave him one days before the aggrieved owner May announced his loss in the newspaper on Monday. Was "I'm the conductor on the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can not say - I never ran my train off the track and has never lost a passenger," he said.
When the civil war, left her home in Auburn, New York, Tubman, and served as a spy and thatCourt for the Union Army to bring reports of black respondents in the other side of the lines from the Confederation. Has "Col. Montgomery and his band of brave black men by a woman in black, burst into the enemy's country, has taken a bold and effective blow, destroying the station, shops, cotton and villas. According to a report in time. "
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