Harriet+Tubman-2009,+sarahhf10

Harriet was born around 1820 in Maryland. She was trying to help all slaves that wanted freedom. She didn't want anyone being forced to be slaves, She thought that everyone should be granted freedom. What she did** **was important because she never had to free 300 people from slavery. She helped them become free and they could live their lives. I think that what she did was very important.** The second thing I'm going to focus on is how she was a spy in the Civil War. As she was also a nurse and a cook. She meets my definition because her feelings were strong enough, physically and mentally. How she wanted to free people, from slavery, and war. She risked her life, yet again, to save more people in the war. She did that by being a spy and being a nurse. If there were no nurses a lot of men would die. Her being a nurse really helped a lot of the mens lives. Although she was a female, she still was a spy. There were all female nurses, but, how many female spies? She was a very brave woman.** **Harriet shows that people can grow to be inspiration. That anybody can move forward, and do good for the world. She went from being a slave child, to being someone who made a huge difference in the world. From doing the good things she has accomplished, she is one of the most well known women in America.** **"I grew up like a neglected weed --** **ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."** **Her legacy helped those who were after her. She made it clear that people could escape from slavery, and that it was a bad thing. Her legacy showed the bravery of one women to go to the war to be a spy. The north did end up winning and the slavery was banned. But those ten years that it took Harriet to get some slaves to freedom did help the U.S.**
 * A hero is someone who does things for people, without wanting anything in return. Someone who has physical and mental strength, that would go to all limits to do something they believe in. To me, thats a hero. Those are the people we respect. Heroes aren't people who help because they know there getting something in return. Those are greedy people. Heroes are the ones who help and wont take anything in return. The name of my hero is Harriet Tubman. She is my hero because she was a runaway slave. She traveled through the Underground Railroad until she got her freedom. When she finally got to her destination, she went back and brought her sisters through the safe houses. Then returned and got more men and woman to freedom. She went back again and got her parents to freedom. Overall, she had brought 300 slaves through the Underground Railroad. Harriet IS a hero because she had freed 300 slaves while endangering her own life. She did this for the people, not for herself. She didn't want anything from anybody.
 * I'm going to focus on how she saved 300 people from slavery. It meets my definition because she did something, knowing the result if she was caught would be death. She didn't care what would happen to her, she just wanted the people to have freedom. She fits my definition... she is even more than a hero. She is a very brave, kind, loving, helpful person. Harriet traveled many days, following the North Star to guide her.. once she got used to the route that she used 19 times, it was easy for her to bring through the slaves. I think Harriet's deeds let the world know how kind someone could be. That doing nice things for people will get you better things than being horrible and rotten to someone. Helping people is better than watching them suffer.**
 * "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one in two things that I have a //right// to, liberty or death; if i could not have one, I would have the other."
 * The people who would have thought Harriet was not a hero were the people in the South who had slaves. They were the people who didn't care about their feelings or their suffering, that would be including Harriet. Since she was also a slave.** **The people who didn't care were the slave traders. If anybody misbehaved they would be beaten.** **While Harriet was on her journey, there were those slave traders looking for any runaway slave. There would be a reward of $40,000 dollars if anyone had caught Harriet. She was the most wanted slave.**