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Born a slave, sold by the age of 5, she watched her sisters being taken away to a new place. Who am I talking about. I am talking about Harriet Tubman.

"I never ran my train off track, and I never lost a passenger." "I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experinces of it." These are things Harriet Tubman said about her self. Harriet Tubman was a great person, she freed over 300 slaves and took 19 trips on the Underground Railroad within 10 years. On the Underground Railroad there was a conductor and passengers. Harriet was the conductor and the slaves were the passengers. They had other words for the slaves, they called them cargo or parcels. She brought them up nourth to Cnanda where they were free. Harriet took them to stopoves. Stopovers were the houses that took in runaways. There they could eat and sleep. Thomas Garrett was a stopover, he was theartend and put in jail because of it. Harriet, a runaway her self, tried to help a runaway before the Underground Railroad. She was cought. The master thew a heavy steel waite at her and it hit her in the head, she went into a coma and had blackouts for the rest of her life.

She helped in the civil war by spying and nursing. She spied on the Confederate army for the Union army. While doing that she never stopped freeing slaves. She freed people she knew like her family. In 1857 she helped 3 of her brothers and sisters get to freedom. During thet same year she freed her parents.

Harriet was born a slave she ran away from her masters home in 1849. Soon after she started the Underground Railroad. She took her first trip on the Underground Railroad in 1850. She took her last trip on the Underground Railroad in 1860. She was a conductor for 10 years. She liked to go during the night for a cuppel of reasions, one she did not want to be cought, and two she did not want to see the slaves working tike she used to.

When the civil war ended she did not have to free slaves. She married Nelson Davis. She was 93 when she died March 10, 1913.

Just a quick review of what I said. Harriet Tubman freed over 300 slaves. She was a spy and a nurse in the Civil War. Harriet took them to Canada. She was a runaway. She freed her broters and sisters and parents.

Now, ask yourself, is Harriet Tubman a great person a person who has touched many lives?