Laycee

I bet you never thought that the color of your skin would ever matter. It doesn't now, but back in the 1800's and early 1900's it did matter. If you were black you would have to work for long hours doing hard work like cleaning your master's house. If you did the work wrong you would be whipped. One person who had to feel this pain was Araminta Ross, who is also known as Harriet Tubman, and she was ready to do something about it. Not just for her, though, but for every black person who had do go through it.
 * introduction**

First I will tell you about Harriet's childhood.

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820, in a little shack in Maryland. She had 8 siblings: Linah, Mariah, Soph, Robert, Ben, Rachel, Henry, and Moses. When Harriet turned 5, she was taken away from her parents to work. The work was hard, too. She worked outside a lot, mostly in fields. Once as a teen, Harriet almost died. A rock that meant to hit somebody else, hit Harriet in the head instead. When she was inside she would clean. Nobody showed her how the chores had to be done. If she did the chore wrong, she was whipped by her master. When she worked, she was hardly fed at all. She was fed just enough to stay alive. Since work took up almost the whole day, there was no time for school. So Harriet grew up illiterate. When Harriet got older she worked as a spy in the Civil War.
 * childhood**

Now I will tell you a little about Harriet's adulthood.

In 1849 Harriet married a free black man named John Tubman. Slavery was still going on. All the slaves were tired of slavery and Harriet thought of a plan to help them. In 1849 Harriet escaped from slavery in the south to the Underground Railroad in the north, knowing what would happen if she was caught. Harriet took 13 missions which saved more than 100 slaves. She would go to the south and pick up the slaves and bring them to the north where slavery was against the law. The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad. It was a network of houses and buildings to help the slaves escape from slavery to freedom. It was made in 1819. So the slaves would not get caught they wore disguises.
 * adulthood**

Harriet Tubman was a good person. She knew what would happen if she was caught freeing the slaves on the Underground Railroad, but that did not stop her. She risked her life freeing some of the slaves. That is why I chose her as my person that has touched many lives.