harriet tubman the slave who escaped
and helped hundreds of other slaves to
escape
[Music]
i escaped from slavery in the south
of the usa i then
helped hundreds of other slaves to
escape to the north of the usa
and canada i also freed hundreds of
slaves
who wanted to fight in the civil war
my parents were slaves for the brodess
family
in maryland usa i was the fifth
of nine children at the age of six
i started work as a nurse maid for
another family
after that i had to work in the woods
and fields
our owners did not think of us as people
for them we were like animals or
machines
if we did something wrong they hid us or
punished us
in horrible ways
in 1831 at the age of 11
i started to do the same work as the
adult slaves
every day we had to work for many hours
in the fields
around this time i received an injury
which i never forgot i refused
to stop a slave who was escaping
the slave's owner threw a metal weight
at the slave
but it hit me on the head it hurt a lot
and this injury gave me headaches for
the rest of my life
in 1849 i was brave and tried to escape
i was married by then but my marriage
was very
unhappy and i hated the thought of
another year
of slavery two of my brothers agreed to
come with me
we wanted to reach the north of the usa
where slavery was illegal i could live
there as a free woman
we made good progress towards the north
but then we heard some bad news
our owner was offering 300
to anyone who caught us
my brothers became frightened and we
decided to return to maryland
we were punished when we returned but i
still
wanted to escape
a short time later i escaped again
this time i went alone i traveled at
night
along quiet roads and paths
some kind people helped me on the way
they gave me food and a place to sleep
finally i arrived in the city of
philadelphia in the north
the journey was long and difficult but
it felt
wonderful to be free at last
in philadelphia i got a job and began to
earn money
i missed my parents and my brothers and
sisters
i was free and i wanted my family to be
free too
maybe i could help them to escape
in 1850 i received some bad
news my niece and her daughters were in
danger
their owner wanted to sell them and they
didn't want to go to different families
i decided to return to maryland to free
them
i had to help them to escape we traveled
at night
and used the stars to find our way to
the north
after helping my niece and her daughters
i helped many other slaves to escape
i offered to help my husband john tubman
too
but he didn't want to leave the south
he didn't want to be with me anymore so
our marriage
ended
[Music]
soon a new law made things a lot more
difficult for me
it became illegal to help a slave to
escape in the usa
i had to find a new route to canada
where slavery was illegal
in 1857 i went on a very special journey
to help my parents
they weren't slaves anymore but their
life in the south was very difficult
they were very happy to see me again and
wanted to go with me to canada
our journey was very slow and difficult
because my parents were old
we had a big celebration when we finally
arrived in ontario canada
[Applause]
in 1861 the american civil war started
the confederates from the south wanted
slavery
to continue the unionists from the north
wanted slavery to become illegal
i joined the union army which fought for
the north
an army captain james montgomery heard
about me
he discovered that i helped slaves to
escape
before the war and he wanted my help
he wanted slaves to fight for freedom in
the union army
i took a team of spies to the south and
found
slaves who wanted to join us
it was dangerous work but we were very
successful
on one trip 700 slaves agreed to escape
and they became soldiers
on the 9th of april 1865
the war ended what could i
do with my life now
i decided to fight for equal rights for
black people
and for women
i spoke at public meetings and i tried
to help black
people who were poor and old
in 1896 i bought some land
and in 1903 i gave the land to my church
i wanted the church to start a home for
black people who were poor
and elderly in 1908
the home opened for the first time
as i looked back at my life i was very
proud
i was happy that i helped so many people
to fight
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哈里特·塔布曼（harriet tubman） 逃脱
并帮助数百名其他奴隶
逃脱的奴隶
[音乐]
我从美国南部的奴隶制中逃脱，
然后我
帮助数百名其他奴隶
逃脱到美国
和加拿大北部，我还释放了数百名
奴隶
谁想在内战中战斗
我的父母是美国马里兰州布罗德斯
家族的奴隶
我
是九个孩子中的第五个 六岁时
我开始为另一个家庭担任女佣
之后我不得不在树林里工作
我们的主人不认为我们是
他们的人 我们就像动物或
机器
如果我们做错了什么他们会隐藏我们或
以可怕的方式惩罚我们
在 1831 年 11 岁时
我开始做和成年人一样的工作
奴隶
每天我们不得不在田里工作好几个小时
这段时间我受伤
了我永远不会忘记我
拒绝阻止一个正在逃离奴隶主人
的奴隶向奴隶扔了一个金属重物
但它击中了我的头 很痛
，这种伤害让我
在 1849 年的余生都头疼我很勇敢并试图逃跑
我那时结婚了，但我的
婚姻很不
幸福，我讨厌
再过
一年奴役我的两个兄弟的想法 同意
和我一起去
我们想去美国北部，
那里的奴隶制是非法的
我的兄弟们吓坏了，我们
决定回到马里兰州
，我们回来时受到了惩罚，但我
还是
想逃不久，我又逃了一次，
这次我一个人去了我晚上
沿着安静的道路和小路旅行，
有人帮助我
他们给了我食物和睡觉的地方
最后我到达了北部的
费城，
旅程漫长而艰难，但
终于在费城自由了感觉很棒
我找到了一份工作并乞求 为了
挣钱，
我想念我的父母和我的兄弟
姐妹们，
我自由了，我希望我的家人也
自由了，
也许我可以帮助他们
在 1850 年逃脱我收到了一些坏
消息，我的侄女和她的女儿处于
他们的主人想要的危险之中 卖掉他们，他们
不想去不同的家庭
我决定回到马里兰州解救
他们
我不得不帮助他们逃脱我们在帮助我的侄女后晚上旅行
并利用星星找到了通往北方的路
她的女儿们
我帮助了许多其他奴隶逃跑
我也提出要帮助我的丈夫约翰·塔布曼，
但他不想离开南方
他不想再和我在一起 所以
我们的婚姻
结束了
[音乐]
很快制定了一项新法律
对我来说，
事情变得更加困难 在美国帮助奴隶逃跑变得非法
我不得不找到一条新的路线到加拿大
，那里
在 1857 年奴隶制是非法的 我进行了一次非常特殊的旅程
来帮助我的父母，
他们不是奴隶 不再是他们
在南方的生活 因为非常困难，
他们很高兴再次见到我，
想和我一起去加拿大，
我们的旅程非常缓慢和艰难，
因为我的父母已经老
了，当我们终于在 1861 年抵达加拿大安大略省时，我们举行了一个盛大的庆祝活动
[掌声]
美国 内战开始
南方的同盟者希望
奴隶制
继续存在 北方的工会主义者
希望奴隶制
非法 战争，他想要我的帮助，
他想要奴隶
在联邦军队
中为自由而
战 逃跑
，他们
在 1865 年 4 月 9 日成为士兵
战争结束了我
能用我的生命做什么现在
我决定为黑人和女性的平等权利而战
在公开集会上，我
试图帮助
那些贫穷和年老的黑人
1896 年我买了一些土地，
并在 1903 年将土地给了我的教堂
我希望教堂
在 1908 年为贫穷和年老的黑人建立一个家
当我回顾我的生活时，家第一次打开我很
自豪
我很高兴我帮助了这么
多人战斗