Harriet Tubm A Conductor On The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman Interview I interviewed Harriet Tubman; a Conductor on the Underground Railroad. I interviewed this person to learn new information about her. This information will help me organize and outline my essay. I asked a total of twenty-six questions, gathering the answers to them. The information that I found were surprising, interesting, and significant to her character. The most surprising facts that I have learned from this research was that Harriet Tubman became a spy for the Union Army, she was a speaker after the War, and she suffered from seizures, narcoleptic episodes, and terrible headaches her entire life, due to a head injury given to her by a headmaster. Though many just remember her as a Conductor on the
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She traveled to New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. to support a woman’s right to vote. She became the main speaker at the National Federation of Afro-American Women in1896. Finally, she suffered from narcolepsy, a disorder in which an individual would be subject to an overwhelming drowsiness almost constantly. When a slave had left his fields without permission, his overseer ordered Harriet to help him retrain the slave. Trying to punish the disobedient slave, the overseer threw a two-pound weight at him, but he accidently hit Harriet. She spent months recovering, having religious visions and seizures. She would have these symptoms for the rest of her …show more content…
After crossing the Mason-Dixon line for the first time ever, achieving freedom, Harriet Tubman recalled “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such glory over everything, the sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.” She was overwhelmed at the feeling of being a freed person at last, which prompted her to return to the South and help other slaves achieve freedom. Then, she explained while talking about her trips to the South, she said that “I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” On her own, Harriet Tubman led three-hundred slaves to freedom. On her gravestone, it is written “Servant of God, Well
She traveled to New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. to support a woman’s right to vote. She became the main speaker at the National Federation of Afro-American Women in1896. Finally, she suffered from narcolepsy, a disorder in which an individual would be subject to an overwhelming drowsiness almost constantly. When a slave had left his fields without permission, his overseer ordered Harriet to help him retrain the slave. Trying to punish the disobedient slave, the overseer threw a two-pound weight at him, but he accidently hit Harriet. She spent months recovering, having religious visions and seizures. She would have these symptoms for the rest of her …show more content…
After crossing the Mason-Dixon line for the first time ever, achieving freedom, Harriet Tubman recalled “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such glory over everything, the sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.” She was overwhelmed at the feeling of being a freed person at last, which prompted her to return to the South and help other slaves achieve freedom. Then, she explained while talking about her trips to the South, she said that “I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” On her own, Harriet Tubman led three-hundred slaves to freedom. On her gravestone, it is written “Servant of God, Well