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Welcome to the 18th and 19th century, were type machines were invented, where wigs and hats were fashionable and where white posh men and women lived the glamour’s life...but was on the other side? What was the other story? In the 18th and 19th century slavery was introduced to injustice. Where black people were humiliated and abused just because of their skin colour, how much longer would people endure this injustice? Brave, intelligent and Courageous? Those three words tell a story that no other can. The one she went through, the one all black people were forced to go through, some dangerous others horrifying, her name was Harriet Tubman. Well let’s just say she didn’t have a choice and had to face and endure danger and pain. Something that no ‘human being’ should go through, something that doesn’t even exist in nightmare...but that was what Harriet Tubman had to face, and I don’t mean in her dreams...this was reality, this was real. Harriet Tubman, in my eyes changed society today because of what she believed and experienced. Despite her age, she was very passionate and ambitious. She never gave up in her rights for freedom or regretted on how her family raised her. But one thing she knew was to keep on fighting. She knew what was going on around her and why she was locked up from society. She was not educated but her intelligence was unexpected, as she never had an education but she worked long hard hours on the field since she was a young girl.

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