Harriet Tubman

(noun)

(Born Araminta Harriet Ross; 1820–March 10, 1913) An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.

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Examples of Harriet Tubman in the following topics:

  • Women and Democracy

    • Although her career was short, she had set the stage for the African-American women speakers who followed her, including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.
    • Harriet Wilson became the first African American to publish a novel addressing the theme of racism.

  • Women and the War

    • Harriet Tubman was a noted humanitarian, abolitionist, and spy.
    • In June 1863, Tubman became the first woman to plan and execute an armed expedition in U.S. history, leading 300 soldiers 25 miles into the interior of South Carolina to free approximately 800 slaves.
    • Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed assault during the Civil War.

  • The Underground Railroad

    • In fact, one of the most famous and successful abductors, or people who secretly traveled into slave states to rescue those seeking freedom, was Harriet Tubman.
    • A worker on the Underground Railroad, Tubman made 13 trips to the South, helping to free more than 70 people.

  • African Americans in the Military

    • Notable spies for the Black Dispatches included Mary Bowser and Harriet Tubman.
    • Although Tubman is primarily remembered for her contributions to freeing slaves via the Underground Railroad, she also used her extensive knowledge of the terrain in the South to help the Union Army.

  • Forms of Resistance

    • Brown had asked for both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass’s support, but was denied.
    • Tubman had recently fallen ill, and Douglass was convinced the raid would not succeed.

  • From Gradualism to Abolition

    • Though illegal under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, participants such as Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet, Alexander Crummell, Amos Noë Freeman, and others put themselves at risk to help slaves escape to freedom.
    • A prominent example of this is Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.

  • War of Black Liberation

    • Harriet Tubman, though most widely recognized for her contributions to freeing slaves by the Underground Railroad, was also a spy who used her knowledge of the country's terrain to gain important intelligence for the Union Army.

  • Feminist Theory

    • Cooper, Harriet Tubman, and one of the first African American women to earn a college degree, Mary Church Terrell; early black feminist writers promoting gender and sexual equality like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent; early 20th Century writers and activists that sought racial civil rights, women's suffrage, and prison reform like Ida B.

  • Early Social Research and Martineau

    • Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.
    • Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist .
    • Harriet Martineau introduced Comte to the English-speaking world by translating his works.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    • Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a bestselling novel that convinced many Northerners of the evils of slavery.
    • Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, was an anti-slavery novel published in 1852 and written by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe .
    • The title page of the first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
    • An engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1872, based on an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel.