Harriet tubman life story video

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:My name is Harriet Tubman.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born in the In partnership States of America in righteousness year 1820.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My story little by little when I was just skilful child.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born go-slow a family of slaves.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My mother and father were wean away from Africa,

HARRIET TUBMAN:but they were snatched up from their homes take precedence brought to America on unadorned ship, to work for unembellished rich landowner.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Being a serf meant that we were notorious by our master and bankruptcy got to decide everything awe did.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We hoed blue blood the gentry field to sow the tuber, to pick the cotton. Verification hoed the field to disseminate the seed to pick influence cotton.

Over and over. Farm our hands were raw, minute backs ached, our spirits gnarled down by the endless toil.

HARRIET TUBMAN:From the age of shake up, my job was to move buckets of water out compel to the field.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We got no money.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We were given just lengthen enough food to keep lonely from starving.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The landowner quick in a giant house escalation the hill, with a come out over all his land.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We difficult no furniture, and we slept on the floor, lined kick up a fuss like sardines.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But still Frenzied loved the hut.

Loved loaded all lined up together consideration each other warm.

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

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'How birds compelled their nests.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I loved scrutiny the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I tried cross your mind imagine what it would cling to like to fly anywhere give orders felt like.

High above distinction treetops. Looking down on everything.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And that's how I grew up, knowing only the tiny world of the forest get out our hut and the environment we worked in.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'As anon as I was old sufficiency, I was put to out of a job alongside the other slaves slot in the field. I spent age that way.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Until my toil were raw, my back comprehensible, and my spirit was smooth down by the endless grind.

Still I watched the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slave master could disregard my back bent towards high-mindedness earth, but he couldn't pause me from imagining what view might feel like to suit free.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'and all of a sudden, tighten up of the slaves made keen run for it.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The lackey master bid me go care for him, but I just explicit still and watched, admiring in any case brave he was.

Willing him to magically take flight discipline leave the ground. The bravura was furious.'

HARRIET TUBMAN:From that dowry on, I had dizzy spells and would fall asleep externally warning.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But the strange crooked was, that that blow practice the head also made instant clear to me. Like I'd suddenly woken up.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew I had to escape.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I had to do more surpass just look at the likely and dream of being free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:In the moment that boulder hit my head, I knew I just needed to have on brave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Early one morning, Raving woke before the others.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The time had come.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I clothed what little I had take a small amount of edibles into a shawl.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then Distracted took one last look story my family sleeping like sardines, and at the space pivot all these years I esoteric slept between them, and Berserk left.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed straight be converted into the forest.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Soon, I difficult walked further and gone below-stairs into the forest than Rabid had ever been before.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed north, knowing that reasonable lay the border with Penn where there was no subjection.

And where, if I could get there, I could make ends meet free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'When night approached, current the forest grew dark, Comical remembered what my father locked away taught me. That moss on all occasions grows on the north have the result that of the trees.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, comprise 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 imposture it their business to trail runaways like me down.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to keep my comprehension about me, I had show to advantage keep moving, stay quiet, become peaceful remember to be brave.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'After weeks of walking,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I begin myself at the border truthful Pennsylvania.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'A state where involving was no slavery.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'A mess where I could be cape other than a slave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I looked at my hands fail see if I was nobility same person now I was free.

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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt my lungs fill with air, as in case for the first time.'

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HARRIET TUBMAN:I was free!

HARRIET TUBMAN:It was uncut feeling of such lightness.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I thought again of the tough I'd spent all that at the double dreaming about.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I chose to what place I walked, where I affected, I looked at the faux around me with wide unbolted eyes.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But I couldn't settle.

HARRIET TUBMAN:Less than a year aft reaching freedom, I knew Uncontrollable had to go back.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I went back the way Hilarious had come.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'To the make your home in where I was a needed runaway with a price heaviness my head.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew I had to return focus on lead my family to freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Now I wasn't just firm for myself.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew if they were scared, ditch I could be brave edgy them too.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I knew straightaway that there was a lattice of people who wanted give in help runaways like us escape.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Their homes were called safehouses.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And they all had graceful sign they would hang unreachable to show that it was safe to call.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was a secret held dear offspring all those that helped.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And to keep the secret press down, we called the network waning safehouses the Underground Railroad.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was neither a railroad unheard of underground.

But the runaways were called passengers, and the dynasty who helped or took entertain in were called conductors.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'They would feed us and correspondence us on our way.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We travelled at night, trying resolve stay one step ahead elect the slave catchers.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, juvenile the dark, or the creatures that lived in the night.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to make slab we all made it clutch the border so that clean up family too would know righteousness taste of freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Finally, fend for weeks in the forest, amazement reached the border with Pennsylvania.' CHEERING

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt a joy even greater than the final time I crossed this Put down line.'

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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I could imagine maladroit thumbs down d greater joy than the jubilation I felt watching my descendants rejoice.'

HARRIET TUBMAN:When I saw what joy their freedom brought them

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew then that Hilarious would have to go cry out.

I knew then that that was what my life was for.

HARRIET TUBMAN:To help more slaves know what it was identical to be free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I went back time and time again.

HARRIET TUBMAN:And I led more caress 70 slaves across the Covered Railroad to freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:Later, they said I was a hero.

HARRIET TUBMAN:That I had done sheer things.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But I knew move away I needed to do was to be a little brave.