Harriet Tubman Warns "Kill the Snake Before It Kills You" (with text supports)
Harriet Tubman was among the best known conductors of the Underground Railroad, a network of enslaved people, free blacks, and white sympathizers that assisted thousands of runaway slaves escape north. During the Civil War, Tubman offered her [...]
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Analysis Worksheet: Harriet Tubman Warns "Kill the Snake Before It Kills You"
This worksheet helps students analyze a letter in which Lydia Maria Child describes Harriet Tubman's vivid allegory about the necessity of destroying slavery during the Civil War.
Item Type: Worksheet
Historical Era: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Militant Abolitionists Rescue a Fugitive Enslaved Man in Troy, New York
Militant black and white abolitionists organized opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act. In 1859 Harriet Tubman, a former enslaved person and leader of the underground railroad, played a central role in rescuing Charles Nalle. Nalle, who had run away [...]
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)