harriet tubman_whyy is she special? tell me..please.?

Question

i have a research paper. im not trying to get other people to do it for me. so dont sayy that. i have a lot of informantion. but i was wondering about more facts or some unique facts or even some hard to find facts.

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Answer 1

http://www.strawberrylady.com/blackhistory/tubman/Tubman.htm

Here's a great source. It provides a good starting outline, and you can fill in details where you wish to elaborate with other sources you find.

Tubman seems unique in that she was successful not only in rescuing slaves through the underground railroad without incident, but also in working with black and white activists to abolish slavery, as well as in fighting for women's suffrage, and serving in the Civil War.

Since there was much division between the black and white populations, and political competition between black suffrage and women's suffrage, she seems unique in that she fought on all fronts and was respected by all.

This is a remarkable note. Even Frederick Douglass stirred more controversial division than unity by running for office with Victoria Woodhull to campaign for "Equal Rights." They tried to combine the rights of blacks and women to vote, while the rest of the country divided these two issues and addressed them separately. Their joint approach to addressing suffrage as a common human rights issue was rejected as too radical and viewed as endangering to either cause, so this event was written out of history.

In contrast, Harriet Tubman is remarkable as a black woman honored equally by diverse groups as a national heroine, at a time when America was being torn apart by political division over sensitive issues of race and gender.

Answer 2

Well, one unique fact is that she was hit in the head with a scale as a child (a white man in a store was throwing it at another slave) and for the rest of her life had drop seizures as a result - she would simply fall down in a coma like state. Which makes what she did all the more remarkable.

Answer 3

Harriet Tudman worked with the underground railroad getting slaves to freedom in Canada. Just type in her name and search. You'll find tons of information on her. She was an escaped slave herself.

Answer 4

actually, I don't think she was all THAT special. She just headed for Canada to get out of slavery, and on the way, met a guy in Philadelphia named WIlliam Still, one of the true founders of the Underground Railway (who helped facilitate her escape to Canada and became her mentor of sorts) who later familiarized her with its working. She returned to the U.S. (Maryland) and helped about 300 slaves to escape, which paled in comparision to Still's efforts.

There's a lot more to the story, but I think the fact that her name is more or less a household word and few "students of history" have even heard of Still owes more to PC revisionism, her late life, not particularly articulate, rambling advocacy of women's rights, and her largely lip-service support of Brown, Douglass and other abolitionists than it does to objective quantification of their respective historical contributions.

And it was narcolepsy she suffered as a result of the head injury, and she got bonked on the head for refusing to help to tie up a renegade slave.

Answer 5

She was a slave who helped other slaves to the underground railroad which led to their freedom. Slaves would sing black rituals when the coast was clear which helped to direct the slaves to the quickest way of escape and she would go back time after time to help more and more slaves to escape.

Answer 6

No I have a hard enough time telling the people I actually do think are special that they are indeed special

Answer 7

she helped form the underground railroad and helped slaves escape

Answer 8

A good person truely.

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

Answer 10

no person is more "special" that any other, just more popular.