Slavery without submision

1. The article talks about how the slaves rebeled and runaway. The article mentions Harriet Tubman the women who was a runaway slave who helped other slaves go to Canada to be free.

2.The article had part of slaves journals that talked about how they were treated and why they acted the way they did. For example, one passage says " they say slaves are happy, because they laugh, and are merry. I have received two hundred lashes in a day, and had my feet in fetters, yet I would sing and dance and make others laugh to stay out of trouble."

3. How can you account for Harriet Tubman's success? In the article it tells how Tubman had escaped to the north and chose to help others escape. She did this by going back to the south and showing others the path to take to go north. Tubman also had others to help her do this, she would travel to the south carring a gun and told the slaves to go with her and be free or die, the slaves chose to go with her and her helpers in order to be free in the north.

4. As I was reading this I was thinking about how I learned about tubman in grade school and how she ran the runaway railroad. I thought it was just a path that she and others used to go north, to freedom. But as I read this it sounded like Tubman was driving a real train on a railroad, to transport slaves to the free land, also called the north. I like that I am learning more about what seemed like a good story in grade school, that now I can put detail into them, and have an idea of what occurred up to this big event. I was also glad to learn that slavery was abolished by the order of the government. I was under the impression that slavery existed because the government thought it was a good idea. I am glad to hear that the government was the one responsible for ending it.