Harriet Ross was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1820. She was one of eleven children born to African slaves named Harriett Green and Benjamin Ross. They were slaves of the Maryland planter named Edward Brodas. Her family came from the Ashanti tribe based in West Africa. Harriet was injured as a teenager when she was hit by a lead stone while attempting to help a slave get away. The impact knocked her unconscious and into a short coma. She would suffer from blackouts related to this injury for the remainder of her life. Harriet Ross became Harriet Tubman when she married a free black man named John Tubman. John always threatened…
Liz Spocott and Harriet Tubman both show similarities in their childhood. Araminta Ross (Harriet Tubman) was born around 1822 in Dorchester County, MD; she was born into slavery. Araminta changed her name from Araminta to Harriet Tubman. When Araminta was 12 years, she got between a white man and a slave, during a fight, so the slave run away and the white man threw a heavy iron weight at the slave, but instead of hitting the slave, he hit Araminta. After the traumatic blow to Harriet Tubman’s head, she started experiencing very vivid dreams and visions. Similarly, Liz Spocott lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 1850s. Liz Spocott was young black woman who is a runaway slave, and she got shot in head while running away but she continued…
After he graduated from high school in 1934, Rosenberg went to City College to study electrical engineering. At City College is where he met his wife, Ethel Greenglass. During World War II, Rosenberg began to work as an agent for the Soviet Union. He reportedly convinced his brother-in-law, David Greenglass, to gather information for the Soviets. Who was a member of the U.S. Army, and was stationed at a base in New Mexico, and was assigned to work on the Manhattan Project, which was focused on the development of the atomic bomb. Ethel Greenglass was also involved with gathering information, according to her younger brother David, she took the notes and typed them up for the Soviets.…
Alexander Miles was born in Ohio on May 18, 1838. While Miles's exact birthplace and birthdate are unknown, it is believed that he was born in Pickaway County near the town of Circleville, being the son of Michael and Mary Miles. Alexander Miles ended up moving to Waukesha, Wisconsin later in his life where he got a job as a barber. After a move to Winona, Minnesota, he met and got married to Mrs. Candace J. Dunlap, who was living in La Porte, Indiana. She was a widow who had two children with her previous husband and who was four years older than him and a native of New York. Together they had a daughter, named Grace, who was born in 1876. Shortly after her birth, the family relocated to Duluth, Minnesota. It was here, in Duluth, Minnesota,…
My person’s name is Heidi Phillips. She was born in Bryan, Ohio on June 4th, 1973. Her parents are Diane and Jim Phillips. She has one sister named Sarah Phillips but she is married so her name is Sarah Bostater. Heidi Phillips lived in Sherwood Ohio, Oxford Ohio, Dayton Ohio, Littleton North Carolina, Emerald Isle North Carolina, Fredericksburg Virginia, St. Robert Missouri and Bowling Green Ohio. She has gone to Sherwood Elementary, Fairview Junior High, Fairview High School and Miami University. Heidi Phillips has blue eyes, dark brown hair, is skinny and has a ivory skin tone.…
Born into slavery, in approximately 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, Harriet was no stranger to the unbearably horrid treatment the slaves…
When many UConn fans hear about the 1995 National Championship, they think of Rebecca Lobo. Rebecca Lobo is my hero because she is a fantastic basketball player, and I love basketball. She is very hardworking and determined to succeed.…
My topic that I have been researching for a while is Ruby Bridges.She was the first african american child to attend an all white school.I picked Ruby Bridges because she had a lot of courage to attend an all white school.When people didn't want her there,she kept going to succeed in life and achieve her dream.That really inspired me to research Ruby Bridges.…
Harriet tubman was born in 1820 she was born into slavery she was born in Bucktown Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the daughter of two slaves named Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green. At the age of 5 she was already an baby-sitter and maid. At a young age she saw her sisters get…
Does our legal system have racist tendencies? In a perfect world, people would be punished for the crimes of which they are guilty, and all punishments would be fair. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Racism is still at large.…
When most people think of Elisabeth Griscom Ross, also known as Betsy Ross, they think of the woman who came up with the design for and then sewed the first American flag. Many Americans believe that she sewed the first American flag under the direction of President George Washington, but historians are now saying this is likely untrue and was made up by her grandson over one hundred years after the first flag was sewn. Since this story is likely untrue should Americans still revere Betsy Ross as a significant hero of the Revolutionary War? In my opinion Betsy Ross is a significant person in the Revolutionary War even though she did not sew the flag because she was a strong, educated, independent woman when most women in those days were not strong, educated, and independent. Betsy Ross started her own religion, she loved her country, and should be considered a great American patriot.…
Harriet soon guarded off Dr. Norcom by entering an affair with a prominent white lawyer named Samuel Treadwell. She beared Samuel two children, a boy and a girl. Their son name was Joseph and daughter, Louisa Matilda. Since Hariet was born into slavery, now that she had children, they are too. They belonged to Dr. Norcom. Harriet was feared by Dr. Norcom and she was so scared that he would get a hold to her children that she hid herself in the storeroom crawlspace at her grandmother’s house. She stayed there for eight years from 1835 to 1842. By the crawlspace being so tight and cramped she read, sewed, and watched over her children from a chink in the roof. Harriet waited eight years for an opportunity to escape to the North. In 1842, Harriet took a chance on escaping was able to make her way all the way to New York City by boat. She then was reunited with her children in NYC. Even though, she was at pity of the Fugitive Slave Law, which means wherever Harriet lived in the U.S., she could certainly be reclaimed by Dr. Norcom and he could return her to slavery at any given time. Then, in 1852 her employer, named Cornelia Grinnell Willis purchased Harriet’s freedom from the…
Mr. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) navigator Spain famous and pioneering major geographical discoveries in human history. He was in his youth believer in the theory of spherical Earth and not leading the famous Marco Polo every respect and appreciation, and the determination to become a navigator. During the period between the year 1492 and in 1502 crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times and discovered the American continent and became a great crew in the history of the world.…
Tubman was working on plantations as a field hand during her early teen years. When she was 23 or 24 she fell in love with a freeman. She got permission from her owners to go stay with him. Around 5 years later Tubman and two if her brothers ran away after their owner passed away. They went all the way to Philadelphia. They ended up returning after a short period of time. Soon after they returned Tubman left on her own and went back…
Living her childhood brimful of hope and optimism, Jeannette Walls prospered in the face of her hardships. As the second-oldest child to Rex and Rose Mary Walls, Jeannette had to adapt to an undomesticated lifestyle along with her three siblings. At the first glimpse of her childhood, three-year-old Jeannette burned herself, and after being hospitalized, she went back to working with fire. Her parents believed this to be an act of resilience, contrary to it being perilous. They would pretend their turbulent life was a glorious adventure. She was constantly put into circumstances that were typical for her, but unsound in the eyes of most people. She was sporadically on the move, and faced challenges in each stop. She and Brian would be bullied for their attire, and in one case, Jeannette witnessed…