LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY
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lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
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Wrote the Liberator newspaper, and worked for emancipation.
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Wrote the North Star newspaper, and worked for rights for African Americans and women.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the “Moses of her people, ” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad’s “conductors.” During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tubman used various methods and paths to escape slavery and to go back and rescue others. She relied on trustworthy people, Black and white, who hid her, told her which way to go, and told her who else she could trust. She used disguises; she walked, rode horses and wagons; sailed on boats; and rode on real trains.
Detailed explanation-4: -Harriet Tubman: Underground Railroad Tubman found work as a housekeeper in Philadelphia, but she wasn’t satisfied living free on her own-she wanted freedom for her loved ones and friends, too. She soon returned to the south to lead her niece and her niece’s children to Philadelphia via the Underground Railroad.
Detailed explanation-5: -The total number of runaways who used the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom is not known, but some estimates exceed 100, 000 freed slaves during the antebellum period.