How Did Harriet Tubman Escape To Philadelphia In 1849

Harriet Tubman whose actual name was Araminta Ross. She was born into slavery in 1819
Or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was a purely African ancestry. She was brought up under harsh conditions, whipping as a small child. She spent most of her early childhood with her grandmother. Her grandmother was too old to do slave labor. When she was six years old she was consider able to work. She wasn’t allowed to work in the fields. Her master name was
Edward Brodas. Harriet Tubman master would lend her to this couple who frequently beat hurt.
They were the first people to put her to work at doing weaving. When she wouldn’t work as hard as she should the couple would get her to check the muskrat trap. Harriet would catch the measles while she did the work. The
couple thought she was lacking ability so they sent her back to Edward Brodas. When she had gotten well she was taken to live with a woman as a housekeeper and a babysitter. Harriet Tubman was beat for eating one of the sugars cubes that was in the woman house. She was sent back to Edward Brodas once again. When
Harriet became eleven she wore a yellow bandana to represent she was no longer a child but that she was an adult. She wasn’t no longer known as the name of Araminta. She was now known as Harriet after her mother. At the age of thirteen she was seriously injured by a blow to the head for refusing to tie up a man who had attempted escape. She was hit in the head with a metal weight and had sleeping spells for the rest of her life. In 1844 she had gotten married to
John Tubman. John Tubman was not a slave he was a free person able to do whatever he wanted but chose not to do it. Since she knew that she was a slave she knew one day her marriage would split if she was sold. Harriet Tubman always dreamed of traveling north. She would be free there and she would be able to keep her marriage together, it wouldn’t be split. John Tubman didn’t want to go up North nor did he want Harriet Tubman to go neither. John Tubman had told
Harriet Tubman “that it was no reason for him to move up North and that he was fine where he was”. He also replied with multiple questions like “where would you get food from?” John
Tubman that he would tell her master Edward Brodas on her if she left because he didn’t want
Her to go nowhere.
Harriet Tubman didn’t believe him at first until she seen his face and knew
That he meant what he said. Harriet Tubman goal was too much for her to give up. Harriet
Tubman and went for escape to Philadelphia in 1849. Harriet Tubman was given a paper from a
Abolitionist white man and given directions to the very first house to escape and be where
Freedom was at. When she reached the very first house she was put inside a wagon and covered
Up with a sack, and she was driven to her next stop. The people who had driven her to
Her next stop was kind enough to give her directions to safe houses. When she went to the safe
Houses the people lead her cross the Mason-Dixon Line. Harriet Tubman caught a ride with a
Lady and the lady husband after she had cross the Mason-Dixon Line. The lady and the lady
Husband was Abolitionist so they brought her to Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman had found
Somewhere to work and she would save her money from the job to help the slaves. She met this
Man named William Still he was the Philadelphia Stationmaster on the Underground
Railroad.
William Still gave Harriet Tubman assistance and also other members of the Philadelphia Anti-
Slavery Society, she learned how to do the UGRR there. In 1850 she was able to free her first
Slave. In 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act was passed. It was passed for that it would be illegal for
Any citizen to assist an escaped slave and demanded that if an escaped slave was sighted, male
Or female should be apprehended. They should also be turned in to the authority for deportation
Back to the rightful owner. Any Marshall who refused to return a runaway slave would pay a
Hefty penalty of $1,000. The Underground Railroad started to tighten up on their security
Because they had need it. It made things more secret. It also sent the escaping slaves to
Canada instead of the “North” of the United States of America. In 1851 she began relocating
Members of her family to St. Catharine’s, (Ontario) Canada West. North street in St. Catharine’s
Remained her base of operations until 1857. When she was there she worked at various activities
To save finance her activities as a Conductor on the UGRR, and attended the Salem Chapel BME
Church on Geneva Street. The cause of the Underground Railroad was to free the slaves to
Freedom in the. The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John
Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin,
A Quaker who assisted more than 3,000 slaves, and Harriet Tubman, who made 19 trips on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman brought 300 slaves to the North where it was freedom.
Most African-Americans resisted enslavement. Some runaways called maroons created free
Communities such as those who existed in Virginia Great Dismal Swamp or in the Florida
Everglades among the Seminole Indians. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 permitted the recapture
And extradition of escaped slaves with the assistance of federal marshals. One of the provisions
Of the Compromise of 1850 levied fines and prison sentences on individuals who helped
Runaway slaves. Fugitive Slave Law forced runaways to flee to Mexico, the Caribbean,
Canada, and also Europe. Many slaves passed on information on the way to be free by words of
Mouth, stories, and also through songs. Their never were no actual train on the Underground
Railroad but it what guides which were call conductors and also those hidden places that they
Were using. Once those slaves had gotten free that started a new life living without having to
Clean up or do chores after someone else. Many people were glad to be free so they wouldn’t
Have to continuously get beat. On 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation had become effective on January 1, 1863. President Abraham Lincoln’s action made abolition of slavery as important a goal in the prosecution of the Civil War as preserving the Federal Union. This Emancipation
Proclamation actually freed few people. It didn’t apply to slaves in Border States fighting on the
Union side; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control. Naturally, the
States in the rebellion did not act on Lincoln’s order. But the proclamation did show Americans And the world that the civil war was now being fought to end slavery. Although the
Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in America, but this achieved by the passage of
The thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution on December 18, 1865 it did make that accomplishment a basic war goal and a virtual certainty. Harriet Tubman had been their
“moses,” but not in the sense that Andrew Johnson was the “Moses of the colored people.”
She had faithfully gone down into Egypt, and had delivered these six bondmen by her own
heroism.