Who was Involved?
Harriet Tubman: She was considered the "Moses of her People". She freed some 300 slaves. She would usually come in the winter because the nights were longer and she did not want to be seen. She took her work very seriously. she threatened anyone who got in her way. If a slave decided to back out on one of the missions, she would not be afraid to kill them. "Dead folks don't tell no lies." (Harriet Tubman) To keep the others safe, if transporting young children, she would always keep a bottle of sedating medicine in her bag to calm them and put them to sleep. I she didn't do this, then the babies would have cried and the mission would be over. By the end of all her expeditions, she was worth 40,000$ if she was turned in. That was a lot of money back in the 1850's. By the end of the 1850's, she was considered an official "conductor of the underground railroad. She had to memorize all the routes and take an oath of silence to not tell where the safe houses, routes, or other conductors were. she was a great leader who also supported the women's rights movement.
Sujourner Truth:She fought for the rights of slaves and women alike. She was an inspirational speaker who converted many to her cause. She had many amazing speeches that are very moving. some of them were, The Mob Convention, The American Equal Rights Association, The Eighth Anniversary to Black Freedom. She had many more than this, but these were some of her bigger ones. She was on a mission to free the slaves and women from their chains that were holding them down. She said, "I did not run off, for I thought that (to be) wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right." (Sujourner Truth) She meant that she did not run away like all the other wicked people on the earth but she fixed the problem and walked away when the problem was fixed. She also recruited many black soldiers for the civil war.
Frederick Douglas:He was a speaker to both races. He wanted to led a anew generation of abolitionists. He was one of the most inspirational Speaker of the cause. He supported the blacks and spoke to the whites that what they were doing was wrong. He had just escaped from slavery. He then married a woman named Anna Murray-Douglas. After he toured Ireland he headed back to America, he started to speak there. His motto was, "Right is of no gender, truth is of no color,God is the father of us all, and we are all brethren." (Frederick Douglas) He was standing up for women's rights too, but he had the right idea when it came to slavery.
Abraham Lincoln: He was the 16th president. When he was being elected president, he had almost no support from the south and was soon taken to the north to be soon elected president. The southern states broke off and declared war. "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came." (Abraham Lincoln) They were helped out by their president when he passed laws that say that there would be no more slavery. He also was the person who said the Gettysburg address.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address)
Sujourner Truth:She fought for the rights of slaves and women alike. She was an inspirational speaker who converted many to her cause. She had many amazing speeches that are very moving. some of them were, The Mob Convention, The American Equal Rights Association, The Eighth Anniversary to Black Freedom. She had many more than this, but these were some of her bigger ones. She was on a mission to free the slaves and women from their chains that were holding them down. She said, "I did not run off, for I thought that (to be) wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right." (Sujourner Truth) She meant that she did not run away like all the other wicked people on the earth but she fixed the problem and walked away when the problem was fixed. She also recruited many black soldiers for the civil war.
Frederick Douglas:He was a speaker to both races. He wanted to led a anew generation of abolitionists. He was one of the most inspirational Speaker of the cause. He supported the blacks and spoke to the whites that what they were doing was wrong. He had just escaped from slavery. He then married a woman named Anna Murray-Douglas. After he toured Ireland he headed back to America, he started to speak there. His motto was, "Right is of no gender, truth is of no color,God is the father of us all, and we are all brethren." (Frederick Douglas) He was standing up for women's rights too, but he had the right idea when it came to slavery.
Abraham Lincoln: He was the 16th president. When he was being elected president, he had almost no support from the south and was soon taken to the north to be soon elected president. The southern states broke off and declared war. "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came." (Abraham Lincoln) They were helped out by their president when he passed laws that say that there would be no more slavery. He also was the person who said the Gettysburg address.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address)