Assignment # 6 Harriet Tubman<3

I have selected Harriet Tubman. She is not Canadian, but she, and the underground railroad has influenced Canada in a very great way.

Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as "The Moses of her people." She made 19 trips into the South and led over 300 slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom in the course of 10 years. I got this information from a website called America's Liberty and another website called PBS.org.

It influenced Canada because when slavery had been outlawed in the United States, it continued to flourish to the South. From about 1820 to 1860, over 20,000 refugees from slavery fled to Canada. The Underground Railroad was a very secret and organized way to get slaves to the northern U.S and Canada.