Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner

Nat Turner

Nat Turner

Drawing of the Nat Turner Rebellion

Turner's Legacy

Nat Turner's Wanted Poster

• Nat Turner is widely regarded as one of the most complex figures in American history and American literature. Nat Turner with the help of other gave some African Americans some sign on hope. He help them overcome fears and reassure then that its okay to stand up for what you believe in , even if it results in execution.October marks the anniversary both of his birth and his arrest as the leader of one of the United States most famous slave rebellions.

• Born: October 2, 1800
• Died: November 11, 1831 he was hanged and then skinned .
• Occupation : Military
• Interesting Fact: From his childhood claimed to see visions and hear voices
• Interestin Fact : Unlike most African Americans at this time , Nat Turner was literate.

Nat Turner being confronted

Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman

Bibliography

Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner were abolitionists who strongly believed that all slaves should be free. Though they didn’t succeed in some of their goals they inspired other abolitionist and slaves that they should fight for freedom.

• "Harriet Tubman Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, 1996. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.

Harriet Tubman

The Actual Route of the Underground Railroad

• Slavicek, Louise Chipley. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent, 2006. Print

• Born: Uknown but statitics show that she was born within 1820
• Died : March 10, 1913
• Occupation : Civil Right Activist known for escaping slavery to become a leading abolitionist; She lead hundreds of enslaved people of the Undergroud Railroad.
• Interesting Fact: When she was an adolescent;she encountered a runaway slave and the man's owner demanded that she stopped him, but she refused which resulted the runaway's owner to throw a two pound weight on her head.
• Interest Fact: Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead army expedition in the Civil War , she lead 700 slaves in South Carolina

Tubman's Legacy

Harriet Tubman

• "A Rebellion to Remember: The Legacy of Nat Turner." A Rebellion to Remember: The Legacy of Nat Turner. University of Nort Carolina, 2004. Web. 22 Feb. 2014.

• Harriet Tubman was widely-known and well-respected while alive. She became an American icon after her passing when Americans realized that all of her efforts of freeing slaves withoout being caught. She continues to inspire generations of Americans struggling for civil rights with her bravery and bold action. Tubman is historical figure because being an African American female they were underlooked as weak and equality didn't exist during that time;However , she didn't let those characteristic hinder her from fighting for what was right.

Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner

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