Who Is Harriet Tubman An Abolitionist

The great African-American orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass once declared, “What, to the American slave, is the fourth of July?” ( Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass). Indeed, by the middle of the nineteenth-century, many African Americans and a growing number of white abolitionists did not believe this was a holiday to be celebrated because everyone was not free. Three important nineteenth-century abolitionists (Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and David Walker) shared the common vision of freeing African Americans from slavery and oppression; the influences and methods of these three figures differed widely.

Sojourner Truth was a religious African-American evangelist, reformer, and an abolitionist who set
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery near the eastern shore of Maryland in Dorchester County, MD and died March 10,1913, in Auburn,NY. She did not receive schooling because she was always busy being a maid in the day-time and baby-sitter for her mistress's baby in the evening. In 1844, her mother forced her to marry a free African-American man named John Tubman. Harriet and John Tubman lived together for five years and did not have any children. Harriet looked into her background and found out that her mother had been emancipated a few years ago, but a former slave master never told them about it (Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century,pg. 27). In 1849, Harriet’s young master died because he was ill. There was a rumor spread that all the slaves were going to be sold, so she made a plan to run away. Her husband did not want to go,but her brothers decided to go with her; then at the last minute, her two brothers were too scared to go on the long journey for fear that they will be caught. Sojourner Truth traveled 100 miles through the Underground Railroad to get to Philadelphia on her own. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes,roads and safe houses used by slaves in the 1800s. The slaves escaped to free states
These three different people aided in the abolishing of slavery in different ways. Sojourner Truth preached about the word of God and how He would deliver the slaves from evil and slavery, Harriet Tubman helped by delivering slaves through the Underground Railroad and David Walker helped by writing the important propaganda called the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World that eventually aided in the fight against oppression of African-American