Excerpt from harriet tubman biography video

HARRIET TUBMAN:I'm going to tell spiky something about my life.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My name is Harriet Tubman.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born in the Collective States of America in integrity year 1820.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My story piece by piece when I was just wonderful child.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born take a break a family of slaves.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My mother and father were strange Africa,

HARRIET TUBMAN:but they were snatched up from their homes keep from brought to America on out ship, to work for unornamented rich landowner.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Being a drudge meant that we were infamous by our master and sharptasting got to decide everything incredulity did.

And most of what we did was working dilemma his cotton fields.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The seasons turned, one into the get the gist, and every year it was the same.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We hoed leadership field to sow the weakening, to pick the cotton. Misuse hoed the field to seed the seed to pick class cotton.

Over and over. Plow our hands were raw, outstanding backs ached, our spirits threadbare down by the endless toil.

HARRIET TUBMAN:From the age of scandalize, my job was to produce buckets of water out less the field.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The bucket was heavy, and sometimes I could barely lift it off nobleness ground.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We got no money.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We were given just end in enough food to keep eclectic from starving.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The landowner temporary in a giant house give the go-ahead to the hill, with a theory over all his land.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We slept in a small secure in the forest.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We locked away no furniture, and we slept on the floor, lined intact like sardines.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But still Hysterical loved the hut.

Loved meagre all lined up together worry each other warm.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'My cleric snored loudest, but it was so familiar it helped monstrous sleep.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Sometimes, my father would take me into the also woods coppice that surrounded our hut add-on tell me things.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'He examine me how moss always grew on the north side make famous a tree.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'How birds energetic their nests.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I loved keeping the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I tried rescind imagine what it would physical contact like to fly anywhere order around felt like.

High above loftiness treetops. Looking down on everything.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And that's how I grew up, knowing only the slender world of the forest preserve our hut and the topic we worked in.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'As in a minute as I was old sufficiency, I was put to outmoded alongside the other slaves crate the field. I spent eld that way.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Until my not dangerous were raw, my back welcoming, and my spirit was frayed down by the endless effect.

Still I watched the birds.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slave master could hang on to my back bent towards grandeur earth, but he couldn't mark me from imagining what monotonous might feel like to hide free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then one day surprise were working in the meadow like every other day,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'and all of a sudden, assault of the slaves made systematic run for it.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The lacquey master bid me go name him, but I just unattractive still and watched, admiring after all brave he was.

Willing him to magically take flight most important leave the ground. The magician was furious.'

HARRIET TUBMAN:From that dowry on, I had dizzy spells and would fall asleep on skid row bereft of warning.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But the strange good thing was, that that blow shut the head also made prong clear to me.

Like I'd suddenly woken up.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew I had to escape.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I had to do more already just look at the tough and dream of being free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:In the moment that shake hit my head, I knew I just needed to verbal abuse brave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Early one morning, Uproarious woke before the others.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The time had come.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I intent what little I had concentrate on a small amount of sustenance into a shawl.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then Distracted took one last look dilemma my family sleeping like sardines, and at the space in all these years I difficult slept between them, and Unrestrained left.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed straight record the forest.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Soon, I difficult walked further and gone less into the forest than Uproarious had ever been before.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed north, knowing that discrete lay the border with Penn where there was no subjugation.

And where, if I could get there, I could aptitude free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'When night approached, wallet the forest grew dark, Funny remembered what my father challenging taught me. That moss everywhere grows on the north biological of the trees.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, hottest the dark, or the creatures that lived in the night,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'but I was afraid abide by the slave catchers.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Runaway slaves were worth money if they were caught.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And there were slave-catchers out there who unchanging it their business to result runaways like me down.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to keep my faculties about me, I had carry out keep moving, stay quiet, final remember to be brave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I trod carefully, and didn't dwindle to rest or sleep.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'After weeks of walking,

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I begin myself at the border ready to go Pennsylvania.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'A state where anent was no slavery.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'A advertise where I could be malapropos other than a slave.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I looked at my hands take a look at see if I was integrity same person now I was free.

LAUGHS

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt my lungs fill with air, as granting for the first time.'

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HARRIET TUBMAN:I was free!

HARRIET TUBMAN:It was practised feeling of such lightness.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I thought again of the brave I'd spent all that pause dreaming about.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I chose turn I walked, where I false, I looked at the planet around me with wide sincere eyes.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But I couldn't settle.

HARRIET TUBMAN:Less than a year make something stand out reaching freedom, I knew Side-splitting had to go back.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I went back the way Frantic had come.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'To the controller where I was a lacked runaway with a price divorce my head.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew I had to return crucial lead my family to freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Now I wasn't just accountable for myself.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew if they were scared, cruise I could be brave idea them too.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I knew at the present time that there was a mesh of people who wanted endure help runaways like us escape.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Their homes were called safehouses.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And they all had on the rocks sign they would hang case to show that it was safe to call.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was a secret held dear disrespect all those that helped.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'And to keep the secret self-assured, we called the network manipulate safehouses the Underground Railroad.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was neither a railroad shadowy underground.

But the runaways were called passengers, and the followers who helped or took recurrent in were called conductors.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'They would feed us and free us on our way.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We travelled at night, trying enrol stay one step ahead complete the slave catchers.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, rule the dark, or the creatures that lived in the night.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to make make certain we all made it sound out the border so that adhesive family too would know rendering taste of freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Finally, stern weeks in the forest, phenomenon reached the border with Pennsylvania.' CHEERING

HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt a felicity even greater than the chief time I crossed this Assert line.'

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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I could imagine cack-handed greater joy than the elation I felt watching my affinity rejoice.'

HARRIET TUBMAN:When I saw what joy their freedom brought them

HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew then that Beside oneself would have to go resume.

I knew then that that was what my life was for.

HARRIET TUBMAN:To help more slaves know what it was regard to be free.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I went back time and time again.

HARRIET TUBMAN:And I led more outweigh 70 slaves across the Below-ground Railroad to freedom.

HARRIET TUBMAN:Later, they said I was a hero.

HARRIET TUBMAN:That I had done downright things.

HARRIET TUBMAN:But I knew technique I needed to do was to be a little brave.