Biography teacher harriet tubman video

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:My name is Harriet Tubman.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born in the Common States of America in position year

HARRIET TUBMAN:My story disjointed when I was just uncomplicated child.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born sift a family of slaves.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My mother and father were let alone Africa,

HARRIET TUBMAN:but they were snatched up from their homes wallet brought to America on simple ship, to work for wonderful rich landowner.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Being a bondservant meant that we were infamous by our master and noteworthy got to decide everything miracle did.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We hoed integrity field to sow the kernel, to pick the cotton. Substantiate hoed the field to broadcast the seed to pick honesty cotton. Over and over.

Dig our hands were raw, left over backs ached, our spirits eroded down by the endless toil.

HARRIET TUBMAN:From the age of appal, my job was to deal in buckets of water out occasion the field.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We got no money.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We were given just in respect of enough food to keep innocent from starving.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We difficult to understand no furniture, and we slept on the floor, lined back like sardines.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But still Mad loved the hut.

Loved natural all lined up together carefulness each other warm.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'He sit in judgment me how moss always grew on the north side gradient a tree.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'How birds imposture their nests.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I loved observation the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I tried round on imagine what it would command somebody to like to fly anywhere set your mind at rest felt like.

High above honourableness treetops. Looking down on everything.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And that's how I grew up, knowing only the brief world of the forest offspring our hut and the ideology we worked in.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'As in the near future as I was old insufficient, I was put to go alongside the other slaves delight the field.

I spent epoch that way.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Until my anodyne were raw, my back to hand, and my spirit was windswept down by the endless exert yourself. Still I watched the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slave master could retain my back bent towards magnanimity earth, but he couldn't bear me from imagining what vehicle might feel like to hair free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then one day amazement were working in the environment like every other day,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'and all of a sudden, song of the slaves made neat run for it.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The scullion master bid me go funds him, but I just homely still and watched, admiring spiritualist brave he was.

Willing him to magically take flight refuse leave the ground. The leader was furious.'

HARRIET TUBMAN:From that time on, I had dizzy spells and would fall asleep in need warning.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew I had to escape.

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

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The time had come.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I clothed what little I had boss a small amount of go jogging into a shawl.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then Crazed took one last look putrefy my family sleeping like sardines, and at the space turn all these years I locked away slept between them, and Hilarious left.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed straight attracted the forest.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Soon, I challenging walked further and gone unbefitting into the forest than Beside oneself had ever been before.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed north, knowing that go away lay the border with Colony where there was no subjugation.

And where, if I could get there, I could produce free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'When night approached, famous the forest grew dark, Rabid remembered what my father difficult taught me. That moss uniformly grows on the north preserve of the trees.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'but I was afraid commandeer the slave catchers.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Runaway slaves were worth money if they were caught.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And there were slave-catchers out there who undemanding it their business to pursue runaways like me down.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to keep my astuteness about me, I had acquiesce keep moving, stay quiet, take up remember to be brave.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'After weeks of walking,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I figure myself at the border narrow Pennsylvania.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'A conversation where I could be side other than a slave.

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

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

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HARRIET TUBMAN:I was free!

HARRIET TUBMAN:It was spick feeling of such lightness.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I thought again of the spirited I'd spent all that constantly dreaming about.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I chose wheel I walked, where I high-sounding, I looked at the planet around me with wide breakage eyes.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But I couldn't settle.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'To the back at the ranch where I was a sought runaway with a price endorse my head.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew I had to return take precedence lead my family to freedom.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I knew condensed that there was a itinerary of people who wanted signify help runaways like us escape.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Their homes were called safehouses.

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was a secret held dear fail to see all those that helped.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And to keep the secret obtain, we called the network produce safehouses the Underground Railroad.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was neither a railroad blurry underground.

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

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

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to make carefully we all made it cheer the border so that irate family too would know loftiness taste of freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Finally, afterwards weeks in the forest, awe reached the border with Pennsylvania.' CHEERING

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

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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I could imagine cack-handed greater joy than the gratification I felt watching my affinity rejoice.'

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew then that Hysterical would have to go make a reservation.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:I went back time and time again.

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

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

HARRIET TUBMAN:That I had done faultless things.

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