Thirst for Freedom
Thirst for freedom HARRIET TUBMAN In 1820, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene both slaves in Buck Town Maryland gave birth to Araminta Greene also born a slave. Araminta lived some 90 years of hardship and peerless journeys to free her people from slavery. Cruelty and unbearable living conditions were a norm for these times.First, we'll need some background on the institution of slavery, which began in the early 15th and 16th century recorded in the ancient history of Babylon and Rome.Portuguese explores living east of Africa provided slave labor for Whites, West Indies and Spanish Plantation owners; in 1660 Virginia Law decreed slaves would serve their masters for life. With the development of plantation land and its five staples of produce Rice, Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco and Coffee required strenuous work to harvest.At the age of six Araminta was taken from her parents to live with James Cook, whose wife was a weaver, to learn the skills of weaving. James Cook would order her to guard his muskrat traps, which compelled her to wade through the water. Once she was
sent when she was ill with the measles, and caught a cold from wading in the water and she grew very sick. Making her way to freedom in Pennsylvania without any friend and no education she relied on her only skill as a house servant. While employed the rudest labors drove oxen, carted, plowed and did work of a man. After Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation, she was hired as a union spy, scout, and hospital nurse as well as a prolific speaker to her people. Bibliography Bradford, Sarah. Her mother convinced her master to take her away from the Cooks until she could recuperate. In conclusion, it is evident that the abolition of slavery was the effort of the slave and the free, the rich, the poor, the literate and the illiterate. Harriet successfully returned 19 times freeing over 300 slaves without one being recaptured. While employed she managed to save enough money to return to the South to free her sister and her two children. She became involved in a number of causes including Women's Suffrage Movement. But because the Civil War didn't have freedom of her people as goal she refused the Union bid for her services. If she didn't run away it was rumored she and her brothers were to be sold to a chain gang. But with the help of friends and the sale of her manuscript she was able to save her property from the bank mortgage. This would prepare her for deliver her people from bondage later in life.
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