Around 1844, she married John Tubman, a free Black man. In 1849, she and her two brothers escaped from the plantation, but they faced great dangers and returned. Although alone on her second attempt to flee, Tubman succeeded. The great anti-slavery leader Frederick Douglass had enormous respect for Tubman.

John Brown summary: John Brown was a radical abolitionist whose fervent hatred of slavery led him to seize the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. Hanged for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, Brown quickly became a martyr among those seeking to end slavery in America.

John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, New York, United States

The new biopic is mostly true to what we know of the real Harriet Tubman, though writer-director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou) and co-writer Gregory Allen Howard (Remember the Titans, Ali) take some considerable liberties with both the timeline of events and the creation of several characters.

Slavery in the United States was a paradox because the Constitution states that all men are created equal, yet the same document allowed for slavery….

The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad and it did not run on railway tracks. It was a complex, clandestine network of people and safe houses that helped persons enslaved in Southern plantations reach freedom in the North.

The first great wave of captive Africans swept across the Atlantic only in the 1590s. Prior to then, the trade in captives had been relatively small because African authorities strongly preferred to sell extracted commodities, such as gold, ivory, and other natural resources, rather than their own people.

The vast majority of enslaved Africans employed in plantation agriculture were field hands. Even on plantations, however, they worked in other capacities. Some were domestics and worked as butlers, waiters, maids, seamstresses, and launderers. Others were assigned as carriage drivers, hostlers, and stable boys.

Male slaves were used for more physical agricultural labor, but as more enslaved men were taken to the West Coast and across the Atlantic to the New World, female slaves were increasingly used for physical and agricultural labour and polygyny also increased.