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Harriet Tubman, the North Star

07 Friday Aug 2020

Posted by michelinewalker in Abolitionists, Slavery, Underground Railroad

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Act Against Slavery, Anti-Fugitive Act of 1850, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Maryland, North star, Philadelphia, Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of her People”

There were abolitionists, Black and White, long before the Act Against Slavery. They could help fugitive slaves by offering “stations,” (safe houses), but fleeing to one of the fourteen free states to the North was dangerous. Slave-hunters could catch escapees and were encouraged to do so. Bounties were very attractive. Moreover, the Anti-Fugitive Act of 1850 directed everyone to participate in preventing Black slaves from leaving plantations where they grew rice, tobacco, cotton and indigo to the point of exhaustion. In the eyes of slave-hunters, Black slaves were flesh, mere chattel, and returning them to their plantation was lucrative.

Harriet Tubman (née Ross), 1820 -10 March 1913, was born and raised in Maryland, a slave state. In about 1844, she married a free slave. She was motivated to flee in 1849, when she heard that she could be sold. She and two of her brothers fled the plantation. She may have stopped at Preston, a community where Quakers were abolitionists. She met people. She traveled from Preston to Philadelphia on foot during the night. She was guided by the North star.

In 1850, she returned to Maryland to help free her family[1] and made 19 trips rescuing 70 slaves. She followed the North star and “never lost a passenger.” She went back to Maryland to free her family. In 1859, she bought a house at Auburn, New York, where her parents lived.

She met white abolitionist John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry  John Brown was executed.

(See Harriet Tubman, wiki2.org.)

During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman was an armed scout and spy and the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war. She guided “the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people.” (See Harriet Tubman, wiki2.org.)

After the Civil War, she retired to a house she had purchased, in 1859, in Auburn, New York, but died in a home for Indigent Aged Negroes which she helped establish.

She divorced Mr Tubman in 1850 and married a man whose name I can no longer locate. He was the love of her life, but he died years before she passed away.

At the age of 15, she suffered a head injury. It was a heavy blow to the head. She never recovered:

Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another enslaved person, but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life.

(See Harriet Tubman, wiki2.org.)

Yet, after her flight and

over the next decade, she conducted upward of 300 fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad to Canada. By her extraordinary courage, ingenuity, persistence, and iron discipline, which she enforced upon her charges, Tubman became the railroad’s most famous conductor and was known as the “Moses of her people.”[2]

Harriet Tubman was a Methodist and “deeply” religious. “Rewards offered by slaveholders for Tubman’s capture eventually totaled $40,000.”[3]

She followed her North star. The North Star would be the name of Frederick Douglass‘ anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York. The paper was published from 3 December 1847 to June 1851. Frederick Douglass is our next star. He was multi-racial and had been a slave.

A set of cards showing freedom seekers reaching freedom.

(What is the Underground Railroad)

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[1] The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Harriett Tubman, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ann-Petry
Accessed August 07, 2020
[2] Loc. cit.
[3] Loc. cit.

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There is a tiny error in the video. Harriet Tubman died in 1913.

Frederick Douglass (wiki2.org)

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The Underground Railroad

04 Tuesday Aug 2020

Posted by michelinewalker in Black history, Colonialism, First Nations, Indigenous People, Slavery

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Act Against Slavery, Chloe Cooley, John Graves Simcoe, Metaphor, Richard Pierpoint, The Coloured Corps, Underground Railroad, War of 1812

Underground Railroad by Granger (Fine Art America)

This is the image I set at the top of my post on the Underground Railroad. It has not been possible for me to publish the entire post. The Block Editor caused severe difficulties.

Timeline

The abolition of slavery in British Colonies would not be enacted until 1833, but for some forty to sixty years Black slaves were freed the moment they arrived in Canada because of the Act Against Slavery. William Grisely had told John Graves Simcoe, the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, that he had seen Adam Vrooman force Chloe Cooley into a boat that would cross the Niagara River to the United States and sell her. Chloe so resisted Vrooman that he had to call for help to tie her to the ship. John Graves Simcoe also received a petition. On 9 July 1793, Colonel Simcoe’s legislative assembly passed the Act Against Slavery. The abolition of slavery in the British empire took place in 1833, and Abraham Lincoln did not sign the Emancipation Proclamation until 22 September 1862, but after passage of the Act Against Slavery, the Blacks were free the moment they stepped on Canadian soil, Upper Canada.

The War of 1812

This story is manifold. It tells how much Richard Pierpoint contributed to the War of 1812 and how little he was given in compensation. The Act Against Slavery did not abolish racism. Richard Pierpoint created the Coloured Corps. However, White veterans got twice the land he received. Pierpoint had asked to be allowed to return to Africa. They wouldn’t help. This post also tells about the Amerindians’ contribution. They were free until Canadian Confederation, which is a very long time: from 1534 to 1867.

Amerindians & the Blacks

As you have noticed, in North America slaves were the Indigenous people and the Blacks brought to the North American continent during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Next we meet Harriet Tubman and other abolitionists.

John Graves Simcoe (wiki2.org)

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