Harriet Tubman Soldier Of Freedom Full Movie

[Music] slavery is the next thing to help Harriet Tubman was enslaved from the day she was born on a plantation in an area called Peters neck on the Eastern Shore of Maryland one of her first memories was seeing her sisters taken away on a chain gang and lost forever [Music] she never closed her eyes she said without imagining that she saw the horsemen coming and heard the screams of families being broken apart every time I saw one I was afraid of being carried away born in 1822 Harriet Tubman's parents been and RIT Ross named her Araminta for minty for short she would be enslaved for the next 27 years her parents were forced to live apart after minty was born because they were enslaved by different masters [Music] ninh t Ross spent her childhood around Bucktown enslaved by a farmer named Edward Brodus he often hired out his enslaved people to other farmers for extra cash for minty this began when she was just six years old her temporary master took her away from her mother neglected her beef till they broke her ribs and picked her without mercy [Music] years later he could still see scars with lipstick cutter flesh I used to sleep on the floor in front of the fireplace and there I'd lie and cry and cry Mindy was strong and iron-willed one day at the Bucktown store an overseer ordered her to stop an enslaved young man from escaping she refused the overseer threw an iron weight it accidentally hit her instead that weight struck me in the head and broke my skull they carry me to the house all bleeding and faint but I went to work again and I looked with the blood and sweat rolling down my face it nearly killed for the rest of her life she suffered not only from painful headaches but epileptic seizures the Epilepsy created auras visions and voices come from head the deep faith explained these were messages from God suddenly I heard such music as built all the a their first act of defiance had changed her physically mentally and spiritually forever in 1844 the 22 year old minty married John Tubman she took his name and began calling herself Harriet to honor her mother John was freedom like half the african-americans in Dorchester County at the time but his freedom could not be shared by his wife she was still enslaved and she knew and a children were also beyond her master [Music] she did all the work of a man she said she drove News and cut and hauled wood in the forest she was a hard worker and burned money on the side while the Brodus family grew deeper in debt he was bringing people to look at me and trying to sell fear that some of us was going with the chain gang down to the cotton and rice fields and they said I was going but Harriet Tubman refused to be sold one night in the fall of 18-49 she stole away from a plantation at poplar neck and Caroline camp [Music] she raced to freedom by herself sometimes on foot and sometimes with the help of a loose network of trustworthy and slaved and free blacks and white helpers who hit her and sheltered her as she made her way from station to station on the Underground Railroad [Music] finally she crossed the border to Pennsylvania where slavery was illegal she was free when I found I crossed that run I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person there was such a glory over everything the Sun came like gold through the trees and over the fields I [Music] felt like I was in hit [Music] but could she stay three bounty-hunter scoured the north hunting runaway slaves at any moment she could be captured dragged back to the Brutus's or even killed I was a stranger in a strange land my home after all was down America because my mother my father my brothers and sisters and friends living but I was free and they should be free she could run to Canada and be safe but she would not not yet over the next 11 years Harriet Tubman risked her life again and again returning to the Eastern Shore 13 times to free her beloved family she carried a pistol and demanded complete commitment to escape there were slave catchers and bloodhounds in hot pursuit Tubman little runaways two miles of marshes and forests and ran for hours on end hiding in the root cellars barns and houses people who hated [Music] she disguised herself as an elderly woman or as a man hidden in plain sight fear and desperation with constant companions tubman directly risky about 70 people and gave detailed instructions to many more leading them he gave me mastery and he said the North Star in the heads he meant for me to be free by the late 1850s reports of her deeds began circulating the Moses of her people they called short and plainly dressed Tubman described her life in slavery and her dangerous rescue missions during lectures in the north her stories shocked and deeply moved with audiences liberty or death if I could not have one I would have the other but no man should take me alive [Applause] obviously harriet tubman would continue her battle for freedom by joining the United States Army in South Carolina [Music] [Music] she cared for the sick buried the dead and fed the living she witnessed war in all its horror [Music] but the nurse was also a union scout and spy [Music] she led a network of eight spies crossing enemy lines to uncover information on rebel troop movements she became the first woman to lead a civil war expedition a raid freed some 750 proudly she carried a rifle Harriet Tubman was a soldier for free in her later years Tubman struggled to make ends meet she had a small farm in Auburn New York raising crops and chickens selling eggs making bricks any money she had she tended to give away John Tubman died in Maryland she married Nelson Davis a young veteran and they adopted a little girl named gertie she remained a passionate activist for decades she spoke at women's suffrage meetings in November 1896 susan b anthony led Tubman to the podium at a women's rights convention in Rochester New York she was introduced to thunderous applause I was a conductor for the Underground Railroad for eight years and I can say what most conductors can't said I never ran my train off the track [Applause] [Music] she died in 1930 over 90 years old her struggle for equality freedom and justice continues myths and exaggerations were already growing about Harriet Tubman at the same time some of her deeds were forgotten but the truth is enough it was here on the Eastern Shore where Harriet Tubman came from where her legend began today you can walk in her footsteps the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad byway retraces the courageous exploits of this small unassuming and brilliant woman a woman who survived enslavement freed herself then became an underground railroad leader abolitionist wartime nurse spy soldier farmer a businesswoman and fighter for women's rights this is where she lived where she suffered and where she accomplished great things we can still travel through history with Harriet Tubman moving always toward freedom [Music] woke up this morning with 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Length: 16min 46sec (1006 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 20 2019