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Short Story: Her New Home In Maryland

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It was the early 1800s when Lisa moved into her new home in Maryland. She was happy about moving into her new home because of the price she had it for and the location, although she didn’t like the slavery around her. She was a Quaker, who believed in the freeing of slaves. Her thoughts on this were clear; she thought the whole thing was inhuman and unjust. Lisa had always thought that everyone deserved equal rights and should all be treated the same. In fact, most if not all Quakers felt the same way. But she knew that she would never be able to end slavery alone. Maybe one day things will turn around and there will be a change she always thought. Weeks, months, and days have passed and the same old things were going on in her community. …show more content…

Cathy was the second. After the first fourth months she had a total of three slaves stay in her home. They stayed for only a few days. She took really good care of them but every time one left she wanted to follow to see how they ended up. Once they left her house she had no idea where they went next or what happened to them. She always hoped for a better future for them. She had learned that the Fugitive Slave Law, created in1793, had officials from the escaped slave states to help track down the escaped slave and return them to the plantation or industry they came from. They sometimes went door to door asking if they saw anything suspicious and if they came to Lisa’s door she wouldn’t know what to do. There was nowhere to hide the slaves in her house except a bedroom, which wasn’t very spacey. It was 1848 when a new slave arrived in her home named Harriet Tubman. She came barefoot, dirty, and in battered clothing. Tubman was in her twenties and barely spoke when she got there. Maybe it was the snow or the traumatization from her previous “home”. This was when the railroad was most active and dangerous, from 1850 to 1860. Especially in 1850, when the United States made the Fugitive Slave Law more harsh and required all states to hunt and bring back all runaway slaves. Because of the snow and extreme weather, Tubman’s stay was a bit longer than the other slaves Lisa had in her

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