How Did Harriet Tubman Contribute To The End Of Slavery

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Would you say being the conductor of the underground railroad was an important part of helping abolish slavery? Well, one woman widely known as the conductor of the underground railroad is Harriet Tubman who helped hundreds of slaves escape from slavery. Many credit her as a leading factor in the abolishment of slavery. So, the question now is, how important was Harriet Tubman to the end of slavery?

In the time between 1819 and 1820, a baby was born by the name of Harriet Tubman. She was born directly into slavery in the little area of Dorchester County, Maryland. Later in her life around the time of 1849, she is helped by a white abolitionist. She was given a paper with instructions on the path to freedom. She found herself in Philadelphia, where she found herself a job to help fund the many slaves she would help become free. In her time in …show more content…
By just the next year in 1850 Ms.Tubman helped her first group of slaves to freedom, of which was the north at the time. Later in September of 1850 she was bestowed the title of "conductor" in UGRR, the logistics of this is that she was a leader that knew the routes of freedom towards the north. Later that same year the 1850 fugitive slave act was released, by which instead of escaping into the northern area of the U.S. they would escape into Canada. By the time of 1852 Tubman was so renowned in the south that she was given the moniker of "Moses", and also given a $40,000 bounty on her head. From that time of 1852 till 1857 she made 11 trips to free slaves. Much later in December 1860 Harriet Tubman's UGRR carrier came to an end after making around 19 trips and after freeing over 300
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