Summary Of Harriet Tubm Conductor On The Underground Railroad

The excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, by Ann Petry, is a biography of six-year-old Harriet and how she learned the meaning of slavery and life. When Harriet Tubman was just six-years-old, “she could not…have said how or at what moment she learned that she was a slave.” Little Harriet was well aware of her siblings and parents being slaves, but she never knew she would end up being one too. Through all of that, Harriet ended up learning a lot of things of the real world and why it drove her to become the conductor of the Underground Railroad. Harriet’s life lessons of being slave at the same time of realizing what the real world was capable of, drove her to help other slaves and become the conductor. Harriet