Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs wrote an autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, first serialized in a newspaper and pub...
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) was born into slavery, from which she escaped. Eventually, she became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad - a system developed by a secret group of free blacks and sympathetic whites to help enslaved people get to free northern states. She was also a scout...
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who commanded a massive slave army during the Third Servile War, the largest and most successful slave rebellion in Roman history. The uprising began in 73 B.C. when Spartacus and a small band of slaves escaped from a gladiator school by using kitchen utensil...
As for another mine in the forest, apart from the escaped slaves who cares. 4) Trouble in the sewers, sorry that's just a police action, who cares. 5) Bassilus yes, he made a nuisance of himself in Beregost. 5a)On that matter rescuing Captain Brage would also be a big...
Jim, the escaped slave who Huck helps, makesHuck's life seem much better. It's easier not to be able to deal with someone who wants to forceyou to go to school than to have to fight a law that says you are a piece of property.Huck and Jim's friendship, as shown by Twain, is...
A women’s right advocate and abolitionist Isabella Baumfree gave herself a new name, Sojourner Truth. She escaped from slavery to freedom and became the first black woman to win a court case in efforts to gain back her son. During the Civil War, she was instrumental in recruiting black me...
The song Wade in the Water warned escaped slaves to get in the water so dogs wouldn't smell them. With these songs, hundreds of people escaped slavery. (1) Which way is connected with the spies? A . Shoelaces. B . Tattooed Head. C . Orange Juice. D . Songs (2) How did John...
This is Harriet Tubman. She was born into slavery in 1822, but eventually escaped and became an important part of the abolitionist movement. Name the African American woman who assisted many slaves in finding freedom in the North using the Underground Railroad. ...
She escaped to freedom in 1826 with her infant daughter after her owner refused to comply with the gradual abolition of slavery law New York had passed, the National Parks Service reports. Baumfree later freed her son, who had been sold to an Alabama slave owner, by bringing her case to ...
Despite King’s urgings for him to continue to stay on as a business partner, Equiano, who had narrowly escaped being kidnapped and placed back into enslavement, left for England in about 1768 where he picked up work on ships, including on an Arctic expedition, and also on a project to ...