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Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade Impact
on Slaves C
P. 147-149
Harriet Tubman
And helped other slaves to escape
Became well known by slaves & slave owners.
Owners wanted her to fail, offered $40'000 for her capture.
Became organiser of Underground Railroad.
She did not stop helping slaves gain freedom.
Became part of abolitionist movement.
She never got caught.
Did house work, saved money for rescue trips.
Decide to help friends and family to be free as well.
After escape, Harriet was alone.
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The slave who escaped to freedom
At 25, married John Tubman, free black American.
She dreamed about going north to be free.
At 12, hit on the head by piece of iron, affected rest of her life.
Husband didn't want to move, she left her husband.
Asked Underground Railroad to help escape to North.
As slave, Harriet had many hardships, regularly beaten & whipped.
1849 - ran from plantation, middle of the night.
Ancestors brought to America during first half of 18th cent.
Followed North Star to free land Pennsylvania.
Born into slavery, on plantation in American South.
No more slavery in northern states of USA.
John Brown
1859 - Hanged in Virginia, after unsuccessful rebellion at Harpers Ferry.
Rebellion in 1859 increased tension between North & South, leading to American Civil War (ACW).
Killed slave-owning settlers in Kansas.
Was an abolitionist, encourage slaves to rebel against owners.
ACW between northern & southern states.
North won the war, slavery ended in South.