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My definition of a hero :A hero is someone who helps someone if they are in trouble, including lifeguards and firefighters and people who don't get paid .A hero is also a person who makes sure someone is safe and potect someone from danger. 1)Intro to your 19th Century Hero My 19th Century American Hero is Harriet Tubman. She was born in 1820 and died on March 10, 1913. Harriet Tubman was born into salvery, but she made her way into the his tory books with the amazing things she did.One of the most famous things that she did was help seventy slaves escape to the north. 2.) Harriet Tubmans Life in Perspective Hariet Tubman was mostly a slave in Maryland. She mostly lived during the nineteenth century when she did most of the things she was famous for. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of salve escape to the north.After she ran away herself she came back again to help her family. .Harriet tuman helped other slaves because she wanted them to escape to freedom. This was important to rescue them so they wouldn't get beaten. 3)What Makes Your Person a Hero Harriet Tubman is a hero because after she ran away from slavery and escaped to the north with the risk of being caught, and having a bruital punishment, and came back for her family. She was also a spy during the civil war and assisted fugitives. Tubman also helped fight for womens suffrage .She helped other slaves escape to the north so they wouldn't get hurt or beaten and so they would have a better life and have a chance at an education. She also hellped John Brown get men for the Raid on Harpers Fairy. Tubman also built a home for elderly African Americans. 4)What is the Person's Legacy? Tubman's legacy is to help people in need and to put somebody elses needs in front of yours. 5)What Advice Would They Have for Todays Youth? Her advice is try to treat people equally and to try to get along with everyone.

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

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman

http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_h_tubman.htm

Proposal Hero it is a word so many of us use, but what is a hero. I believe a hero is someone who helps someone if they are in trouble. A hero is a person who makes sure someone is safe and protects someone from dander out of the kindness of their heart. I believe that Harriet Tubman should be recognized as a hero. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, but she quickly made her way into the history books.

Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland. Tubman first owner was Miss Susan, Harriet's mother worked in the big house, So they had little time to spend to together as family. Tubman always got whipped and suffered from hallucinations. Tubman recalled that one time she got beaten five times before breakfast. One time Tubman got sick and she was nursed back to health and sold again to slave owners. When she got older, she was given much harder and difficult jobs like driving the oxen.

Early in her life she escaped to the north. Now that's not heroic, but after she escaped she came back to the south numerous times with the risk of being caught. She could of even been given a brutal punishment, which could of been death, and rescued seventy slaves, through the underground railroad. By doing this she had protected slaves from getting beaten, and even giving them a chance at an education.

Later in Tubman's life she joined the Civil War and assisted fugitives, and was also a spy for the Union. Tubman also believed strongly in women’s rights and did her part to give women the right to vote, and worked closely beside Susan B. Anthony. Tubman assisted in the Raid on Harpers Ferry by helping John Brown find men to help with the raid.

When she got older Tubman eventually got sick and had to be sent to a home for elderly African Americans which she had helped open earlier in her life. Tubman did her part in protecting slaves and helping soldiers in the war to helping fight for women’s suffrage.

Tubman's legacy was to help others and put someone else’s needs in front of yours as she did when she rescued the slaves from the south. Tubman's advice for todays youth would probably be to treat people equally and put other people’s needs in front of yours, furthermore to try to get along with everyone. And that's why I think Harriet Tubman should be recognized as the greatest American Hero of the Nineteenth Century.

Hariet Tubman Quotes

I grew up like a neglected weed -- ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a //right// to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.