Harriet Tubman's Life as a Slave on the Brodas Plantation

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This paper discusses Harriet Tubman's life as a slave on the Brodas plantation, and as a laborer routinely rented out as a field hand. The author details her strength over the years that led her to become a daring savior, a Moses to so many Southern slaves as the guide across the Underground Railroad to freedom.

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"Harriet Tubman remains one of the most important figures in the history of the American Civil War. Her life is testimony to the fact that slaves resisted the bondage that was upon them in a positive fashion. She stands tall as an example of creative resistance, through her use of disguise and her effective management of contacts over the network of the Underground Railroad. Her femaleness, her blackness, and the fact that she was formally a slave under law until the abolition of the institution throughout the United States were formable obstacles to her mission, to free slaves, but one she admirably overcame to become the Moses of her people."

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