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= Name: = My name is Rhonda Daivs. I am twenty years old. I am an abolitionist. I live in Savannah, Georgia. I am married to another abolitionist named John M.C. Davis. I have one daughter named Rihanna Davis. My mother is Angelina Grimke. My father died from cancer when I was young. Sarah and Lindsey Grimke are my aunts. Harriet Tubman is my grandnmother. I am strongly against slavery just as my mother was. = A page from the journal of = = =

Entry Number 1: Angelina Grimke
Angelina Grimke Sarah Grimke

As everyone should know my mother and her sisters were against slavery. As her daughter I have decided to follow down the same path. My mother was the daughter of slave holding judge from Charleston. She was born on February 20, 1805. At an early age my aunt Sarah and my mother deleveloped a dislike of slavery. She moved to Philadelphia in 1819 and joined the society of friends. In 1835 my mother had a letter against slavery published by William Lloyd Garrison. After that my mother wrote a pamphlet to appeal the christian women of the south. My aunt Sarah followed my mother example by publishing An Epistole to the clergy of the southern states. The pamphlets were publicy burned by officals in South Carolina. My mother and my aunt was warned that if the returned home they would be arrested. My aunt Sarah and my mother moved to New York. There they became the first women to lecture for the Anti-Slavery Society. That brougtht attacks from religous leaders who disapproved of women speaking in public. My aunt Sarah wrote bitterly that men attemping to "drive women from almost every sphere of moral action" and called on women "to rise from that degradation and bondage to which the faculties of our minds have been prevented from expanding to their full growth and are sometimes wholly crushed." My mother and my aunt became pioneers in the struggle for women rights. In 1838 my mother married an anti-slavery campaihner( my sept-father) named Theodre Weld. They settled in Belleville, New Jersey, with my aunt Sarah. There they opened their own school. Then they established a progressive school at the Raritan Bay Community in New York. During the Civil War my mother Angelina wrote and lectured in support of Abraham Lincoln. After the was my mother and my sept- father Theodre moved to Hyde Park, Massachusetts. My mother continued to campaign for civil rights and women suffrage until her death. My mother died on October 26,1870. The way I feel about Angelina Grimke is that she was a hard fighter. My Sarah Grimke and Agelina worked hard together to fight against slavery. I wish Angelina was still here to see what she accomplished. I love the way that she was outspoknen. Angelina have left us with many memories of her.

Entry Number 2: Harriet Tubman


My grandmother Harriet Tubman was a slave and the slave owners didnt record their slaves birthdates. My grandmother was born around the 1820 or 1821. She was born on Edward Brodas plantation near Bucktown Dorchester County, Maryland. My grandmother was born into slaver. Her ancestors had been brought to america in shackles from Africa during the 18th century. My grandmother was denied the opportunity for education because of her status. That left her illiterate her entire life. Slaveowners didnt want their slaves to know how to read or write. My grandmother was the 11th child born to the Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene. Her real name was Araminta. She was often called Minty as a child. When she became older she called her self Harriet. She started working at an early age. When my grandmother was five, she was loaned out to another plantation. She became to sick to work, so she had to return home. She had been suffering from cold exposure. After she recovered she was loaned out to another plantation. There she worked as a nurse to the planter's infant child. At the age of twelve she was working at field hand, powling, and hauling wood. At age 13 she got hit in the head with a weight. That change her life forever. My grandmother had seizures and had to take sleeping pills. About the age 25, my grandmother married John Tubman. John Tubman was a freeman. My grandmother gained permission to marry him from her owners. She was required to contiue working for her master. My grandmother told John about her dreams of being free. He told her that she will never be free and if she tried, he would turn her in. She went to Maryland to John's cabin hoping that he would go north with her. Then she found out that he had taken another wife. When Moses freed the Isralites from slavery in egypt to freedom in Israel was compare to years before the civil war, when my grandmother Harriet freed over 300 blacks from slavery in the south. For her hard work her nickname was moses. My grandmother followed the north star to free land in Penn. My uncles came with her but they became scared and returned back to the plantation. She said: " I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory over everything..and I felt like I was in heaven." My grandmother won her freedom bravey, but she became lonely. So she went back to help her family and friends to show them what freedom was like. She went to Philadelphia and founded work. She saved money to finance rescue trips. My grandmother became involved with the city's large and active abolitionist organizations and with organizers of the underground railroad. My grandmother used Thomas Garriet home in Wilmington, Delaware as a checkpoint. My grandmother undertook some hazardous missions down south, pinpointing slaves, and leading them to freedom to Canda. If any of the runaway slaves tried to return or surrender they were threaten death by my grandmother. She carried a gun to warned escapees. My grandmother was dubbed "General" Tubman by the militant abolitionist John Brown. William Still described my grandmother as: a women of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary speciman humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate looking farms hands of the south. Yet, in point of courage, shrewdness and disinterested exertions to rescue her fellow- men... she was without her equal." Slaveholders offered 40,000 dollars for my grandmother capture. My grandmother rescued her sister in 1840, her brothers in 1851, her other three brothers in 1854, and her parents in 1857. Senator William H. Seward was an advocate of my grandmother. My grandmother and the undergroung railroad became the most dominat force of abolitionism. Around 1858, my grandmother teamed up with John Brown as he plotted a raid on Harper's Ferry Virginia. John Brown plan was to raid the armory there, disribute weapons among slaves, amnd instigate a rebellion. My grandmother hepled John with the fundraising. She would have participated in the raid but she became ill. In one of my grandmother interviews, she referred to John as " my dearest friend." During the Civil War, my grandmother served the union army as a cook, laundress, nurse, scout, and spy behind confederate lines. In 1862, she moved to Beaufort, S.C. and helped hundreds of Sea Islander slaves transition from bondage to freedom with the help of several missonary teachers. My grandmother undertook scouting and spying missions, identfying potential targets for the Army. Such as: cotton stores and ammuniltion storage areas. The boston Commonweath described my grandmother efforts in July 1863 as: " Col. Montogomery and his gallant band of 800 blacks soldiers, under the guidance of a black women, dashed into the enemies country...destroying millions of dollars worth of commissary stores, cotton, lordly dwellings, and striking terror to the heart of rebeldom. That brought off near 800 slaves and thousands of dollars worth of property. In 1865, my grandmother began caring for wounded black soliders as the matter of the colored Hosiptal at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. She raised money for freedmen's schools, helping distitute children, and contiued caring for her parents. In 1868, she transformed her family's home into the Home for Aged and Indigent colored people. She also lobbied for educational opportunuities for freedmen. My grandmother belived that she had been called by God to help her people she once told an interviewer: " Now do you suppose he wanted me to do this just for a day, or a week? No! the Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just so long as I lived, and so I do what he told me to do." In 1868, my grandmother began working on her autobiography with Sarah Hopkins Braford. Sarah was a white school teache in New York. My grandmother autobiography was published in 1868, then later undrer a received tittle in 1886. In 1869, Harriet married Nelson Davis, a Union Veteran half her age who had been a boader at her house. He died of tuberculosis in 1888. In 1896, she was a delegete to the National Assocation of colored women's first annual convention. She belived the right to vote was vital to preserving their freedom. Around the turn of the century, she bought 25 acres of land near her home with money raised through benefactors and speaking engagments. She also made arrangements for the African Methodist Epsicopal Zion Chruch to take over the Home. My grandmother worked closely with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chruch since the 1850s. In 1911, my grandmother was welcomed into the Home. Many women provided her a lifelong monthly pension of $25. Living past ninety my grandmother died in Auburn, New York on March 10, 1913. She was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery. The City of Auburn commemorated her life with a memorial tablet at the front of the Cayuga County Courthouse. In 1944, Eleanor Roosevelt Christened the Liberty Ship of Harriet Tubman. In 1995 the U.S. Postal Service honored her life with a postage stamp. Harriet was a smart, strong, and brave African American women. Without her sereval slaves wouldnt have had the experince of freedom. Harriet was very determined women. To me Harriet Tubman is a hero also. She worked hard and she stood up for what she believe in. I think Harriet was a leader because she led many people to freedom with a positive attitude. She showed African Americans like me that anything can be accomplish. Even though Harriet is resting in peace, she is still important to history.

Entry Number 3: The Underground Railroad


The Underground Railroad was loosely organized system for helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada or to areas of safety in free states. It was ran by local groups of Norhern aboilionists, both were white and free blacks. The escaping slaves were called passengers. The Underground Railroad was a highly systematized, national, sercet organization that accomplish prodigious feast in stealing away slaves in the south. Most of the help given to the fugitive slaves on their varied routes north was spontaneously offered and came not only from abolitionist or self- styled members of the Underground Railroad, but the plight of the runaway slave before his eyes. The major part played by free blacks of both North and south, and by slaves on plantations along the way of helping fugitives escape to freedom was underestimated in nearly all early accounts of the railroad. The resourcefulness and daring of the fleeing slaves themselves, who were usually helped only after the most dangerous part of their journey was over. There was probably more factors in the success of their escape than many conductors addmitted. In some localities, like Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Wilimington, Delaware, and Newport energetic organizers did mange to loosely systematize the work. Quakers were particulary prominent as conductors, and among the free blacks the expolits of Harriet Tubman stand out. It is extremely difficuly to separte facts from legends, especially since a few enslaved blacks probably no more than a few thousand years 1840 and 1860, escaped successfully. Details of ecapes on the Underground Railroad were highly publicized and exaggerated in the North and the South, for different reasons. The abolitionists used the Underground Railroad as a propaganda device to dramatize the evils of slavery. Southern slaveholders publicized it to illistrate Northern infidelity to the fuguitive slave laws. The effect of this publicity, with its repeated tellings, and exaggerations of slave escapes, was to create an Underground Railroad legend that correctly represented a humanitarian ideal of the pre- Civil War period. I think the Underground Railroad was important because without it slaves wouldnt have had a way to freedom. The Underground Railroad was very useful and the conductors were brave.The Underground Railroad wasnt really a railroad but it was a way to freedom for slaves. I think the Underground Railroad is important to history. The Underground Railroad was led by many people that was against slavery. I think the Underground Railroad was a unique pathway and I respect what it accomplish.

Essential Questions
== 1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? One's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and the 1860s in by knowing what slavery is. Also by putting myself in their position during slavery times and by feeling how they felt during slavery times to. ==

== 2. Why would slavery ever be condoned in the United States? I dont think that slavery will ever be condoned in the United States because it was harsh and curel. I dont think anybody should be treated the way slaves were treated. Slaves were human beings just like we are, so they should have been treated equally. ==

== 3. Was the Civil War the only means to end slavery in the United States? i dont think the Civil War was the only means to end slavery in the United States. We had strong women like Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, and Harriet Tubman that stood up for what they believe in. The faught against slavery. ==

== 4. What are some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past? Some of the long- term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past are discrimination. Some people are still racist and some rules or still stricit .==