{"id":5232,"date":"2021-02-03T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:26:37","slug":"republicans-in-history-harriet-tubman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5232","title":{"rendered":"Republicans in History: Harriet Tubman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet Tubman was a gun-toting former slave who worked as a spy and scout for the Union Army during the Civil War.\u00a0 Her most remarkable accomplishment was her skill at successfully leading others out of slavery through the Underground Railroad. And what many people don&#8217;t know about Harriet Tubman is that <em>she was a Republican<\/em>. While this should come as no surprise, being that Republicans freed the slaves, the modern media narrative would have many think otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>She was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland, one of nine children to slave parents owned by neighboring plantation owners.\u00a0 She was profoundly affected by the sale of three of her sisters which forever separated the family. \u00a0She endured the beatings and abuse common to slave children at the time.\u00a0 She suffered a severe head injury as a child from a weight thrown by a slave owner at another slave, which hit her in the head.\u00a0 As a result, she experienced epileptic seizures, headaches, and bizarre dream states for the remainder of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Araminta ran away for the first time when she was 27 with her two brothers.\u00a0 She was frequently hired out to other plantations, so she had vanished for two weeks before her owner realized that she was gone.\u00a0 Her brothers became scared and decided to return.\u00a0 She was forced to return to the plantation with them.\u00a0 Two years later, she fell ill and her owner decided to try to sell her.\u00a0 Irate, she continually prayed for him to change his ways.\u00a0\u00a0 After seeing that this was not to happen, as he continued to bring people to buy her, she prayed that God would remove him from her path.\u00a0 He died a week later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one of two things I had a right to,&#8221; she explained later, &#8220;liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.&#8221; When she had married freeman John Tubman five years prior, she had changed her name to Harriet Tubman.\u00a0 She sent a message to her mother through a coded song sung by a trusted fellow slave telling her \u201cI\u2019ll meet you in the morning.\u00a0 I\u2019m bound for the Promised Land\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet made her way to Pennsylvania.\u00a0 She worked simple jobs to save money for other trips to bring family members and friends to freedom. In all, she made about 19 trips to bring slaves to the North.\u00a0 In 1850, the trip became more perilous with the <em>Fugitive Slave Act<\/em> which forced captured slaves in the North to be returned to their owners in the South.\u00a0 She then rerouted the Underground Railroad to Canada, which had categorically outlawed slavery.\u00a0 She was proud of the fact that through all of her trips, she never lost a \u201cpassenger\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During the Civil War, she worked as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army as she blended easily with the local population and was familiar with covert travel and subterfuge among enemies. Her intelligence helped with the capture of Jacksonville, Florida.\u00a0 She was also the first woman to lead an armed assault during the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Two things sustained her:\u00a0 her gun at her side for self-defense and her faith.\u00a0 She was not afraid to use her gun when needed and she encouraged the slaves she led to freedom to embrace the Old Testament.\u00a0 She was buried with semi-military honors at Fort Hill, Auburn, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/History.com\">History.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet Tubman was a gun-toting former slave who worked as a spy and scout for the Union Army during the Civil War.\u00a0 Her most remarkable accomplishment was her skill at successfully leading others out of slavery through the Underground Railroad. 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