Even before Harriet Tubman was born she had a powerful enemy. Her enemy wasn’t a person or even a country; it was the system known as slavery. It is known that at least two grandparents were captured by slave traders and brought to North America from the Slave Coast of Africa during the 18th century. Because slaves were not allowed to read and write, Tubman grew up illiterate. She left no letters or diaries …showed first 75 words of 2876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2876 total…America and told them why slavery was so wrong. WORKS CITED Merton Dillon, Teh Abolitionists: The growth of a dissnting Minority, PG 187 David Alder, A story of Young Harriet Tubman, PG 22 Mark Buller, Harriet Tubman: her Courageous Story, PG 45 Free states versus Slave States, The World Book of encyclopedia, PG 475-480 Louis Filler, The Crusade Against Slavery: 1830-1860, PG 203 Sarah Bradford, Harriet Tubman: The Moses of her People, PG 56 Tim Hopkinson, Railroad to Freedom PG 142