A few days ago
SuJuBlue

Origins of Slavery – Harriet Tubman?

Hmm well i’m doing this paper on the origins of slavery and i have to make up an interview with Harriet Tubman

What would i ask her?

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A few days ago
TX Mom
Have you read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? That’s where to start. And I think Old Uncle Tom might make a good interviewee. Harriet Tubman was a preacher’s daughter who fought against slavery by hiding her message in her book. But she wasn’t around during the origins, but she definitely saw the evil in it.

TX Mom

not a teacher

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A few days ago
william_byrnes2000
There are a number of questions you could ask Miss Tubman. For starters, where was she born?

How did she manage to escape to freedom originally, like when she freed herself?

What particularly influences her, for example, the Bible, the abolitionist press, speeches by abolitionists, etc.

Has she ever met Frederick Douglass?

Has she ever met William Lloyd Garrision?

How does she feel about the Women’s Rights movement, and ladies like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?

If she has one wish for African American People, what would it be? Is it freedom from slavery, the vote, equal rights with white people?

And lastly, if she is blessed enough to live to see all black people free, how would she like to spend the rest of her life?

I’d avoid specifics about the Underground Railroad, in her day being involved with it could get you hanged, and too many specific questions would arouse suspicion. She must have been very clever and “cagy” to avoid capture for so many years.

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A few days ago
DANIELLE S
Hmm Do you think mankind enslaving other men and women was the first sign of mankind loosing his instinct to survive or was this action a needed and timed tool to survive ?Possibly a balance and or co-dependency.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
She wasn’t around the orgin of slavery time period you should interview like someone like when slaves were first brought over.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
I would ask her “Who were your influences as a child?”…”Why did you feel compelled to free slaves?” “What did you hope for the future?”
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