Harriet Turban: The Most Famous Conductor Of The Trackless Train
Harriet Tubman, the most active “Greatest Conductor” of “The Trackless Train” (Mallory, Maria), and perhaps one of the best known African-Americans during the Civil War. Many African Americans knew her as “Moses of her people” (Cave, Janet 71); “Moses being the biblical figure who led Jews from Egypt” (Scruggs, Otey) where as Tubman helped approximately 300 enslaved African (“Tubman, Harriet.” The New) travel north, reaching and crossing over the Mason-Dixon Line. This is the line that divided the free states from the slave states (Mallory, Maria).Born into slavery in 1820, Harriet Tubman, daughter of Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, was one of eleven children (Marszalek, John 5: 2342). She was a third generation slave, “her ancestors of Ashanti decent, had been brought to the United States from what is now Central Ghana in Africa in 1725” (Mallory, Maria). Harriet was born on a plantation in a rural community named Bucktown, which was located on the eastern coast of Maryland in Dorchester County, by Cambridge. Her master, Edward Brodas, gave her the name Araminta Ross; however disliking the name Araminta, she quickly took up her mother’s name and became known as Harriet Ross (Marszalek, John 5: 2342).
In 1849 Tubman heard rumors that she and her two of her brothers were to be sold to a chain gang located in the deep south. Tubman stated this quote when she thought on the subject of what was about to occur if rumor proved correct, “I have reasoned this out in my mind, There was one of two things I had a right to –liberty or death ” (Mallory, Maria). Harriet was said to have walked by the house in which her parents were working in singing “When the old chariot comes, I’m going to leave you, I’m bound for the promise land….” I(Marszalek, John 5: 2342).”—a lyrical alert she would soon be leaving her in pursuit of freedom, following the north star or “ Drinking Gourd”, a code name that the slaves used to refer to it as, and using the moss on the northern side of trees as a guide” (Mallory, Maria). Leaving the first night aided by a Quaker woman, Harriett hid in her wagon covered in vegetables. (Mallory, Maria), and left the plantation behind. Traveling by night Harriett made it all the way to Pennsylvania. When she reached freedom she was filled with mixed emotions. When she reached Pennsylvania she recalled, “I looked at my hands to see if I was same person, now I was free” (Cave, Janet 71) “She was excited about reaching freedom, but she w
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