How Did Harriet Tubman Escape To Freedom

If it weren’t for the Underground Railroad, things may have turned out to be different nowadays. The Underground Railroad had a tremendous impact in the abolition of slavery. The Underground Railroad was never an actual railroad. The name for it was just a good parallel connection to the actual purpose of it. It mainly consisted of Harriet Tubman leading it and making several stops that helped slaves escape to freedom. She used a guide, called the North Star and that helped her find her way to freedom every time. She mainly conducted this at night so it was difficult to see and they all had to be very quiet and go unnoticed. She would help bring all the slaves she saved to the North because in the North slavery did not exist there, so once all the slaves made it there, they were able to live their lives freely with the help of the whites.

She helped establish the process of the Underground Railroad first then later on began to move slaves with her from stop to stop to get to the North. In his book, Political Economy of the African American Situation, the author says, “The founders of the American Political system and the Constitution wrote about liberty and justice, but protected the slave trade” (Hayes 527). He mentions how the political barriers legislatures found when they tried to abolish slavery. As more and more freed slaves got to the North the legislature got more support economically and publically. The American Democracy follows the phrase “all men are created equal” but that never was followed back then. It took so long for the African Americans to be treated the same, but the process of what they had to go through was hard on