Harriet Tubman A Hero

African American Civil Rights activist Harriet Tubman was an enslaved woman who craved for social change. Harriet Tubman was born to enslaved parents in Dorchester County, Maryland and was willing to risk her life to find social justice for African Americans. Tubman escaped from slavery in the South to become “a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War” (Whiteheld, 2014, p.1). When Tubman escaped slavery justice wasn’t served from her point of view. Her version of justice being served was to go after what you wanted and she wanted all of her people to be free and equal. From my point of view Harriet Tubman will always remain a hero. She was multiple things, a nurse who saved soldiers lives during the civil war, a Civil War spy who