Throughout the world there have been many people who have showed courage, dignity, and kindness when difficult times appeared. It is not easy to do and it is not asked of anyone to do so, but those who chose to show heroism and not request fame are citizens who are dignified for making the world safer. An exemplification is Harriet Tubman. She goes down all the way to the Civil War when she lead slaves to freedom and risked her life for it. Indeed she was courage's and a symbol of hope to many people.
Harriet Tubman was an African American who escaped slavery in 1849 and went to Philadelphia to live freely with the northerners. But she vowed to return to Maryland and help other slaves escape because she felt that if she experienced freedom so should other slaves. So she risked her life to go back to Maryland and help free as many slaves as she could. Eventually, she helped more than three hundred slaves escape and savor freedom. But it wasn't easy having to plan everything perfectly in order not to get caught, and have to walk miles, days, and nights without any food and rest. Tubman never was caught and never lost a slave on any of her 19 rescue trips. Rewards for her capture once totaled about $40,000 and even then that never stopped her. In the American Civil War, Tubman served as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union Army in South Carolina, and during the Civil War she helped free more than 750 slaves.
This brave woman did something that few could do. She showed much courage and bravery. Harriet Tubman is a person that I will always look up to when hard times come and I will have much inspiration when I think of her heroism.
