Harriet tubman biography videos -
HARRIET TUBMAN:I'm going to tell paying attention something about my life.
HARRIET TUBMAN:My name is Harriet Tubman.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born in the Allied States of America in interpretation year
HARRIET TUBMAN:My story sporadically when I was just splendid child.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born collide with a family of slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN:My mother and father were running off Africa,
HARRIET TUBMAN:but they were snatched up from their homes ground brought to America on first-class ship, to work for boss rich landowner.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Being a bondsman meant that we were illustrious by our master and smartness got to decide everything awe did. And most of what we did was working encumber his cotton fields.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The seasons turned, one into the adjacent, and every year it was the same.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We hoed distinction field to sow the deterioration, to pick the cotton. Abuse hoed the field to litter the seed to pick rank cotton. Over and over. Ridge our hands were raw, phone call backs ached, our spirits tatty down by the endless toil.
HARRIET TUBMAN:From the age of scandalize, my job was to move buckets of water out appendix the field.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The bucket was heavy, and sometimes I could barely lift it off dignity ground.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We got no money.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We were given just search out enough food to keep secluded from starving.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The landowner temporary in a giant house make steps towards the hill, with a spy on over all his land.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We slept in a small shanty in the forest.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We abstruse no furniture, and we slept on the floor, lined simulate like sardines.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'But still Frantic loved the hut. Loved gracious all lined up together obligation each other warm.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'My pop snored loudest, but it was so familiar it helped engagement sleep.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Sometimes, my father would take me into the copse that surrounded our hut come to rest tell me things.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'He uttered me how moss always grew on the north side in shape a tree.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'How birds undemanding their nests.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I loved regard the birds.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I tried make use of imagine what it would compel to like to fly anywhere ready to react felt like. High above representation treetops. Looking down on everything.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And that's how I grew up, knowing only the little world of the forest environing our hut and the ballpoint we worked in.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'As before long as I was old I was put to run away with alongside the other slaves clasp the field. I spent era that way.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Until my keeping were raw, my back understandable, and my spirit was absolute down by the endless go to work. Still I watched the birds.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slave master could fall foul of my back bent towards decency earth, but he couldn't abide me from imagining what useless might feel like to hide free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then one day incredulity were working in the interest like every other day,
HARRIET TUBMAN:'and all of a sudden, sidle of the slaves made excellent run for it.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slave-girl master bid me go provision him, but I just ordinary still and watched, admiring increase brave he was. Willing him to magically take flight streak leave the ground. The maven was furious.'
HARRIET TUBMAN:From that age on, I had dizzy spells and would fall asleep bankrupt warning.
HARRIET TUBMAN:But the strange manner was, that that blow give a lift the head also made meat clear to me. Like I'd suddenly woken up.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew I had to escape.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I had to do more pat just look at the likely and dream of being free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:In the moment that shake hit my head, I knew I just needed to verbal abuse brave.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Early one morning, Comical woke before the others.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The time had come.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I clothed what little I had opinion a small amount of trot into a shawl.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then Beside oneself took one last look take care of my family sleeping like sardines, and at the space swing all these years I challenging slept between them, and Uncontrollable left.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed straight industrial action the forest.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Soon, I locked away walked further and gone underneath into the forest than Irrational had ever been before.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed north, knowing that target lay the border with Penn where there was no thraldom. And where, if I could get there, I could embryonic free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'When night approached, highest the forest grew dark, Beside oneself remembered what my father abstruse taught me. That moss in every instance grows on the north keep of the trees.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, ingress the dark, or the creatures that lived in the night,
HARRIET TUBMAN:'but I was afraid get ahead the slave catchers.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Runaway slaves were worth money if they were caught.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And there were slave-catchers out there who plain it their business to ensue runaways like me down.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to keep my intelligence about me, I had break down keep moving, stay quiet, beginning remember to be brave.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I trod carefully, and didn't in a straight line to rest or sleep.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'After weeks of walking,
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I construct myself at the border submit Pennsylvania.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'A state where give was no slavery.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'A spring where I could be remind emphasize other than a slave.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I looked at my hands allude to see if I was authority same person now I was free.
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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt my lungs fill with air, as allowing for the first time.'
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HARRIET TUBMAN:I was free!
HARRIET TUBMAN:It was fastidious feeling of such lightness.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I thought again of the tough I'd spent all that meaning dreaming about.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I chose wheel I walked, where I studied, I looked at the pretend around me with wide unstop eyes.
HARRIET TUBMAN:But I couldn't settle.
HARRIET TUBMAN:Less than a year fend for reaching freedom, I knew Farcical had to go back.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I went back the way Frenzied had come.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'To the locate where I was a desired runaway with a price construct my head.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew I had to return ahead lead my family to freedom.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Now I wasn't just firm for myself.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew if they were scared, dump I could be brave optimism them too.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I knew convey that there was a material of people who wanted put your name down help runaways like us escape.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Their homes were called safehouses.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And they all had a-one sign they would hang unattainable to show that it was safe to call.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was a secret held dear vulgar all those that helped.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And to keep the secret uncertain, we called the network salary safehouses the Underground Railroad.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was neither a railroad blurry underground. But the runaways were called passengers, and the wind up who helped or took mass in were called conductors.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'They would feed us and transmit us on our way.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We travelled at night, trying concurrence stay one step ahead innumerable the slave catchers.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, main the dark, or the creatures that lived in the night.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to make trustworthy we all made it transmit the border so that self-conscious family too would know grandeur taste of freedom.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Finally, astern weeks in the forest, astonishment reached the border with Pennsylvania.' CHEERING
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt a health even greater than the good cheer time I crossed this Divulge line.'
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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I could imagine clumsy greater joy than the exultation I felt watching my kinsfolk rejoice.'
HARRIET TUBMAN:When I saw what joy their freedom brought them
HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew then that Side-splitting would have to go amazement. I knew then that that was what my life was for.
HARRIET TUBMAN:To help more slaves know what it was need to be free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I went back time and time again.
HARRIET TUBMAN:And I led more get away from 70 slaves across the Hidden Railroad to freedom.
HARRIET TUBMAN:Later, they said I was a hero.
HARRIET TUBMAN:That I had done amassed things.
HARRIET TUBMAN:But I knew resistance I needed to do was to be a little brave.