Harriet Tubman

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Impending Crisis

  • The Impending Crisis of the South condemns the institution of slavery, but Helper did not employ a sentimental or moralistic abolitionist approach to his arguments (in contrast to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin).
  • Compare the anti-slavery literature of Hinton Rowan Helper and Harriet Beecher Stowe

• The Old South

  • The abolitionist movement was led by social reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe; former slaves such as Frederick Douglass; and free blacks such as Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston, who helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society.
  • The most influential abolitionist tract was Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), the best-selling novel and play by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
  • The title page of the first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.