Journals 71-75

J71: Discuss the numerous ways in which your life would be different if you lived in the 19th century (1800’s). J72: Choose one of the following quotes by Harriet Tubman and write a 1/2 page reaction to it:

1- I grew up like a neglected weed — ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

2- I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

3- I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

4- Quakers almost as good as colored…. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

5- I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

6- We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

 

J73: Free Write

 

J74: 1/2 page reaction to one of the following quotes about Harriet Tubman:

Quotes About Harriet Tubman • From Alice Walker: “We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.” Alice Walker, You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down. • From Frederick Douglass: “The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witness of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism.” • From Frederick Douglass: “Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you.” • From William Still, diary entry: “Great fears were entertained for her safety, but she was wholly devoid of personal fear. The idea of being captured by slave-hunters or slave holders, seemed never to enter her mind.” • From Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1859 letter: “Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary. I have known her for some time — the slaves call her Moses.” • From Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1859 letter: “… a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. Yet in point of courage, shrewdness, and disinterested exertions to rescue her fellow-man, she was without equal.” • From Oprah Winfrey: “I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.”

 

J75: Why did you choose the particular event that you picked for your narrative? What is it’s significance?