Harriet Tubman: The Conductor Of Freedom
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- During the American Civil War, the country was embroiled in so much fighting that it’s astounding the country still exists today. No fight was more profound than the struggle for black slaves to finally earn their freedom. After all, the staunch belief from the American South that they had a right to own slaves was a primary force in the war beginning in the first place. But even decades before the war highlighted the need for America to end slavery, many people were finding ways to get slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman went above and beyond. But that’s just one part of her rich story.
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If anyone deserves to be on the National currency. It’s Harriet.
What a life!
Right!
Apparently she is slated to be on the 20 dollar bill by 2030, kind of a shame paper money is being used less these days and will be used even less by 2030, so you wont see much of the new 20
@@zacharyouten4525 That really is a shame, actually disgraceful
Currency was designed with founding fathers in mind. If that kind of segregation bothers you, then I suggest we hit all of it and go for all the groups that segregate (BLM, BET, NAACP, UNCF...). No? Oh right, those kind of changes dont apply to certain races. 👌
@@zacharyouten4525 ms
She was a real American hero!
Crazy Horse was a real American hero.
@@CrazyBear65 both
@@CrazyBear65 Why not both?
"I could have freed more only if they knew they were slaves"
Sadly, a lot of that same thought control continues to this day.
This is a nice quote but Harriet Tubman never said it.
Tristram Coffin and who is doing the enslaving ??? Ooh yeah the whiteman nice to have a scapegoat
@@halfcantan1208 The Democrat party, who else?
She never said that.
"I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves" - attributed to Harriet Tubman.
That's a deep statement "...if they only knowd they was slaves"
This is not factually attributed to her.
@@ckaiborbor I did not mention factually, I am not even sure what you mean by that, I presume you mean she did not actually say these words. Be that as it may, that is precisely the reason why I said they are attributed to her, which is true. If you know who actually said these words, then kindly let us know.
This story brings tears to my eyes as a black man. I'm filled with pride, sorrow, anger, fear, and A lil bit of happiness.
Love you bro ✊🏽
I never tire of hearing about Harriet. What an amazingly brave woman she was.
Me either. I learned some new facts about her here.
Me either. I learned some new facts about her here.
I used to live in this one house in Berlin heights ohio. It was and old farm house, after moving and a few years down the line, we figured out the house was part of the underground rail road, there were doors, hidden panels, and secret crawl spaces throughout the entire house. You could easily move through the entire house, and escape if need be. We even found leftover pictures, plates and personal belongings of past slaves who came through the house.
That's amazing
Dude that’s the best things I’ve heard all day
@@michaelterrell5061 if you or anyone else is interested in the houses past, you can look up the Berlin heights archives. There's a lot of history in the surround are, including the town of milan one township over where Thomas Edison was born, raised and invented the light bulb
Edit: or should I say the light bulb he improved upon😅😅
Robert Bailey Will do thank you.Also I’m pretty sure Edison was a jerk and a liar.
Wow, that's pretty cool!!!
It is great to see how even in one of the most bleak periods in history, some people had enough empathy to help slaves. The US feels so fractured currently..
You can thank the dems for that , as well as the media but as Yuri stated subversion is a bitch
@@worldofwarcraftman2 that would be trump for dividing a nation. Not the dems.
@@worldofwarcraftman2 I don’t see many Democrats with members who make fake profiles just to troll people. Conservatives love to be antagonists and victims at the same time.
However I disagree with you statement that the US is fractured in terms racism if that's what you meant it is remarkable that people who lived in a time period where blacks were enslaved and mistreated severely was just a normal part of life had the foresight and mindframe to ever think it was all wrong and willingly put their own well being at risk to help blacks in a culture where nearly everyone accepted and desired slavery to exist and to rebel had severe consequences.
@@thisguy-yv5so I did not mean racism exclusively.. The entire country has gone absolutely insane, going outside currently feels more like a risky situation than an opportunity to have fun. Society is quite truly decadent and a human life is no longer worth anything to anyone anymore.
She’s THE total badass . I can’t even imagine the hell she went thru , as well as the fear , when helping rescue slaves
Why would anybody press the dislike button on this. What an incredible woman
bigots.
I know.
there's an ad every 2 min
@@imdavid4053 there's 3 ads over an 18 min video. But hey who am I to challenge a douch bags maths skills
Racists
Hey simon! So fun fact, in elementary school my class put on a Harriet Tubman play and I got to play Harriet! I researched a lot about her and her life so I could portray her well so it makes me really happy that one of my favorite channels did some research on her great life as well! Keep up the great work!
i'm crying for the life of a woman who died over 100 years ago. a true saint and hero.
What an incredible woman. Thank you for this very inspiring story!
Once a century
@@assasin19991999 &
Harriet Tubman is perhaps my favorite historical figure. What a woman!
Imagine risking your life every day to help people you don’t even know.
You mean like the military, police, firefighters and medical workers of the world that risk their lives everyday while serving their communities and countries by helping people they don't know?
@@secludedmisanthrope6388 for free?
@@calhall4748 Even more, she worked to fund it herself.
@@calhall4748 "Doing good is its own reward." Jewish traditions ("Mitzvoth") consider this a blessing in one's life when done in earnest.
@@stephenwright8824 Ooo i like that quote!
Harriet’s mother was a brave woman.
She was a truly enlightened human being. ❤️
No she wasn’t she just wanted to be free like everyone else. When did that become enlightening? It’s a basic human right. I’m not saying she wasn’t brave and didn’t risk it all for her people. Seeing post like “wow watta gal. She was such a phenomenal human being”. Like what’s phenomenal about wanting to equality. There’s something wrong here...
Lucinda O’Dea I understand your point. I suppose that it’s because acts of humanity like that are so rare these days and that she fought, not just for herself but for others, for her entire life. Perhaps I should have said that she was a remarkable human being and an example to the rest of us. We need more compassion for each other in this world. We’ve come a long way since Harriet’s time, but we still have a long way to go. 🙏🏻
@@Ohdangboomhaur Because she put everything she had into actually doing something about it, and did a damn good job of it.
How can 90 people dislike a video where a woman that was a slave rescued other slaves, and help the Union during the Civil War? I would like to know why? I can speculate why, but just curious as to why.
We already know the answer.
@@Soopahperry111 EXACTLY 🙄😒😤
To anyone who watches this video and catches the mistake of Simon stating 1965 instead of 1865, remember he cited the civil war. Harriet Tubman is his topic, and regardless of the mistake, the subject still is interesting to view. The mistake is noted, move on and enjoy his presentation.
I had to go back to see if I heard it right
Agreed. I caught it too, but the mistake does not take away from the biography.
Typical Simon slip. We deal and move on.
There is always a graphic to give correct information.
It heard it as well, but figured someone else would write a comment about it. I agree with your statement.
@SO E It's easier than all that.
If they paid a fair day's wage for a fair day's work, companies wouldn't make billions in profit.
There are heroes, then there are heroes like Harriet Tubman, truly one of the greatest Americans.
If you haven't seen Harriet, the movie they made about her, you are missing out. It takes some liberties with the history, of course, but damn, it's a good film.
Please do videos on the following people:
1. Dennis Rader
2. Jack London
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Jack Ketchum
5. Jane Austen
6. Anton LaVey
7. Annaliese Michel
I haven't seen it yet, but it's on my list. Glad to see a positive review. I'm still waiting for Hollywood to make a movie about Robert Smalls, another total badass.
I met a guy who didn’t exactly know when he was born, he believed he was 18, but he also said he could’ve been as young as 17 or as old as 20 due to him coming to America from Cambodia at a really young age through an adoption agency.
He gets so serious when speaking on our black heroes, I love it! Her face should be on the hundred dollar bill and more due to her extreme bravery.
I think replacing Jackson on the twenty is more fitting- and will be seen far more often by many more people :)
Yeah because he think American was bad fir having slaves. But he's British and the British have done more slaving than America ever did.
I've been waiting for this Biographics! Thank you for this!!
She deserves not just to be put on the 20 but also a long due posthumous officer rank in the military.
Rest In Power Ms. Tubman ✊🏽
That was one amazing woman. It's amazing how willfully blind some people can be to the clear fact that their cruel, vicious, and morally vacant words, ideas, and behavior are wrong in and of themselves on their own merits, AND that in doing so they put themselves and their descendents on the WRONG side of history, from now to the end of mankind itself.
Yes Democrats put themselves on the wrong side of history, they started the US civil war and Republicans freed the slaves. A southern Democrat(John Wilkes Booth) also assassinated Abraham Lincoln(R). Southern Democrats created the KKK who enforced Jim Crow laws.
@@jefflebowski918 Those are some truely out of date laurels to rest on.
@@Melville1800s ??? Such an odd thing to say.
@@jefflebowski918 Yes they did. Want to know a (not) secret? The parties basicly switched names when Nixon's southern strategy was successfully implemented. So all the crimes you mention were mostly committed by people who were part of (and still are the historical, intellectual, and amoral foundation of) the modern GOP. Or do you see DEMOCRATS happily waving confederate battle flags, even trying to keep them flying over state capitol buildings? It may be hard to hear, but Abraham Lincoln would DETEST the republican party of today - the people who run it, the false icons and false history that sustains it, and the idiots who are so utterly incapable of critical thinking that they support it in the comments of a youttube channel devoted to real, accurate as possible, insightful illumination of the true and MEANINGFUL stories of the people responsible (for better or worse; saints and sinners alike throughout the ages and history that make us US!).Similarly, and OBVIOUSLY, so too the POSITIVE achievements of leaders like Lincoln. The southern democrats - who became MODERN REPUBLICANS - are the inheritors of the sick, amoral greedy slave owners and their willingness to lie, murder, betray, torture and commit treasonous armed rebellion to maintain abhorrently dehumanizing dominion over other human beings, even perverting scripture to justify it. There is a straight line between them and Donald Trump using violence for a photo of at a border up church while holding a bible he had to borrow upside down while preening before the cameras, chin angled upwards giving us his best wanna-be tough guy Benito Mussolini impression. That he does after three years of confederate-lite effort at dehumanizing African Americans, Jewish Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, soldiers, children, the Constitution, and basicly anyone or anything they wouldn't want to see outside their gated wealthy communities or ride on a bus with. Just watch ten random minutes of the first day of this week's Republican National Convention and its clear beyond doubt the nature of the party you think your a part of is. Assuming you haven't been put on a ventilator after attending a gop rally without a mask because COVID19 is a democratic hoax to make trump look bad, that is.
@@Melville1800s So as long as there were some graciously freed slaves.....Slavery was OK? Seriously? And I never said people alive now should be individually held liable for what their ancestors did. SOCIETY as a whole, and the institutions that make it possible are there in part for that very reason! Continuity. Human beings die, but their actions - for good or ill- are carried forward and built upon allowing us to make a world greater than anything we could, in our limited lifespans, ever hope create and grow. Because of the effects the actions of our ancestors have on society and the institutions it is built upon there IS a vital liability we all share for the enduring effects of the crimes, corruption, and hate our ancestors put into it, just as we are for all the love, insight, innovation and brilliance too.
The republican party of today is NOT the republican party of Lincoln. Our society has made horrifying mistakes many times, North AND South, Republican AND Democrat. But where the Democratic party is facing it's failures and working openly and inclusively to fix them, Trump and his GOP are using lies and false equivalency to pretend none exist, or worse EXIST but aren't their fault. History is NOT kind to leaders who use lies, intimidation, and utter hypocrisy to try to avoid responsibility for their actions, particularly when those actions are disenfranchisement of voters, and the indifferent homicide of at least 170,000 American men, women, and children killed because one man was so full of stupid spite and bitter hate that he cut out the very organ of government put there by Obama to deal with the very sort of outbreak we experienced. He did this BECAUSE HE HIMSELF failed to act quick enough when a similar but MUCH smaller outbreak of SARS occurred during his administration. This small, nonpartisan group was tasked with making sure another outbreak NEVER MADE IT to our shores AT ALL. It's secondary function Wise to ensure that while attempting to make sure it never got to our country, it would simultaneously be stocking up and and all the supplies needed protective gear in the like while also ensuring coronation smoothly between States the governor's hospitals the federal government the CDC the who and other International and national bodies it would be part of the fight if it did get to our shores. Donald Trump explicitly gutted this organization because Obama put it there. Despite knowing the threat these viruses posed, and despite being begged not to do this because of the danger it would represent. He did it anyway and now hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead, so WAKE UP. This man and his party arr monsters, and idiot monster at that. Period.
When those are the ones who bare the torch of your cause it's time to take a closer look at your cause - and yourself.
One of the best Biographics, well done Simon!
WTH! She was a war hero and zero recognition. They'd give someone the medal of freedom today if they could display half her balls. What a true American hero!
Medal of Honor.
The drinking gourd song we sang in 2nd and 3rd grade during class.
Harriet is a cherished American icon. God bless her soul. The courage it took to do what she did again and again is unimaginable.
I can’t wait to see the comments that say,that slavery actually helped blacks
🤬🤬🤬🤬 As you know, no way in hell did slavery help black people.
Gail Gentry Absolutely
Thank you Simon. Superbly narrated.
One of the greatest people of the 19th and 20th centuries. She lived to be 90 or 91. How can anybody possibly imagine enduring this,
""When she was five or six years old, she was hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan". Tubman was ordered to care for the baby and rock its cradle as it slept; when it woke up and cried, she was whipped," - and going on to achieve what she did!"
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Childhood
2:30 - Chapter 2 - Harriet growing pains
5:00 - Chapter 3 - Breaking out
7:10 - Chapter 4 - The rescue missions
11:15 - Chapter 5 - Joining forces
13:05 - Chapter 6 - Harriet & the civil war
16:05 - Chapter 7 - Harriet , after the war
Thank you. This comment should be higher
✊🏿 A queen and I'm happy she's in me!
Are u related?
Exblackly!!!
A gun toting, card carrying Republican, who shot at any domocrat who attempted to enslaved.
Traveling secretly by night from Maryland to Philadelphia is unbelievable, especially as a young woman
I visited Harriet Tubmans house in Auburn, NY
I have to go. I visited Demark Vessy's house in Charleston, SC. It's not a monument though.
Love the channel and this topic. Recently watched the movie. The name of the river in South Carolina Harriet Tubman raided is Combahee River
I did NOT know about a LOT of this, even though I started reading about her when I was *five*! Thank you so much!
Same, I knew she helped with the underground railroad, but not all the other stuff wow
Wow in school you just brush past the underground railroad part. I had no idea about her participation in the civil war. Just fascinating what she was able to accomplish.
Harriet: get in losers, we're going to freedom
Someone needs to link this to Kanye's Twitter, right now.
@S Zulu I Don't have twitter
no point, it'll go over his head
@@kotaniyumiko so TRUE. He's totally INSANE!!!!
Who dislikes this video? like why ? Harriet Tubman was a real living super hero.
Another one. Great video on African American USA history. Great woman. Great video.
What an amazing woman!! I knew the basics of her history but had no idea just how much more there was. Wow!
Yeah, she's an inspiration.
Harriet, you are awesome and we love you.
Imagine going back in time and telling her slave owners that in hundreds of years time Harriet would be a household name, whilst history would rightly demonise and forget them
They were making loads of money when they were still alive. They wouldn't care if someone a hundred years later hates them.
Excellent video! Nat Turner & John Brown videos when?
What an amazing woman God bless her
If there's a heaven and a hell, I get the feeling that Harriet is still helping the wrongly enslaved move "north."
There's a million dollar TV series idea....
Wow, she needs her own movie!
She has one. It came out last year.
@@jimmybob1779 what's it called
The movie is called Harriot.
I loved hearing her story! So much i didn't knew. She was truly remarkable
lol ya it was good btw its know not knew not criticising just saying
Nice vid! You should do Hone Heke next, one of the most important people in New Zealand history, he led a native rebellion against the British and won, fighting an entire war over the act of him cutting down a British flag three times
This Biographics has to be one of my favorites. I read about Harriet Tubman in school 50 some years ago so it was really superficial. I learned a lot today.
My family is from that area (Choptank, Dorchester, etc.), and I've been combing records to see if there's any connection to Harriet, be it good or bad. Previous family records indicate my family most likely had both activists (we came over as Quakers) & Slave owners during this time. We also employed free Black people in our homes/businesses. Reading some of these records hurt my heart, as I loathe this part of American history, but I alway pray for those wonderfully brave souls - Black, White, or Other, who were willing to help and risk themselves because they knew slavery was/is wrong! I never tire learning about Harriet Tubman. She was a one of a kind heroine & deserves so much more recognition in America than she receives. Her relations were in my hometown recently (Bristol, PA) to see her statue here & it was a wonderful occasion.
Despite some the comments, thank you for making this video on Harriet Tubman. I got really excited the moment this popped up. It’s always nice to listen to the stories of our people, especially when they’re more in-depth than what we learn in school. She was a savior and still is beacon of light for us all
I love watching your videos and I can’t wait to see more.
Simon this is my most favourite channel of yours. I am so glad you've done Harriet and hope you'll do more Black and Ethnic minority people in future, it's great to learn about people in this way. I've really learnt a lot about historical events that I didn't understand because of these videos. Thanks :-)
An absolute LEGEND
Loved this video too.
That was beautiful. I’ve watched every single one of your episodes through the years. This was the first that made me cry.
She's an iconic woman, inspirational, and brave.
Hey Simon, can we get a video on Robert Smalls? Seems like he would be a very interesting person to see a biographical vid on!
I second Robert Smalls
"I go to prepare a place for you" ...wow!
Though not officially canonized, this woman is nothing short of an angel 👼
This was one of the best videos you’ve ever done, and I like all your videos. Thank you, Simon, and the entire team at BioGraphics!!!!
Almost completed the Tubman museum is on the main road to the center of Cape May, NJ. My limited knowledge is that she was a domestic in Cape May. Did not spend a lot of time there but used this time to achieve income.
Really good video ty.
The Underground Railroad also helped free Union POWs. My great-great (I forget how many "greats") grandfather fought for the Union cavalry from Iowa at Shiloh, got captured, sent to a POW camp in Louisiana, escaped, and used the Underground Railroad to get back North. Also apparently not all white southerners wanted to be part of the Confederacy, because my distant relatives from Kentucky fought for the Union.
This should have way more views. This didn’t even show up on my notifications. This is one of three of my favorite channels.
the large black population found in southern Nova Scotia, Canada is apparently largely attributable to the underground railroad she helped establish in the US. Odd that Simon left this out, as about 49% of all blacks in Canada were ostensibly part of her work, with the large segment in the Cdn. Maritimes. ???
Thank you Simon ... love the vids on all your channels
Nothing but the absolute upmost respect for Mrs Tubman because as much as I hate to admit it, I could NEVER have the courage she had to do what she did, especially when she did it.
Truth is we never know what we'd actually do in a particular situation until we're there.
Amazing!
No,no,no, Yeezy says she didn't free any slaves, and who are you going to trust?
And just think, his mom was an educator. 😢
Who or what is a yeezy?
@@archstanton6102 Kanye West is Yeezy
She freed over 1000 slaves
Harriet was amazing.
“once the war ended in 1965..” 😆
It was a long fought struggle, lol
Made me giggle.
There is a bit of truth to that!
i mean...when you look at the post-war reconstruction and jim crow....yeah...1965....lol
@@Butterflier00 Absolutely.
Imagine going to school in the US for your entire life and learning more about this women’s life, endeavors, and hardships in a 18 minute video then in all the time in school.
Tell the truth. That's why you have to find information elsewhere because these kinds of American stories are not told.
A minor correction: That's Harper's Ferry not Hart's Ferry.
She alone dug a subterranean channel that long on her own. built a train and tracks to save so many people from oppression. truly an incredible woman.
Wow what an incredible story and even more incredible woman. When you think of ‘grit’ and determination’, Harriet Tubman comes to mind.
Always amazing work!
Kudos. Best story
Do a BIO on Alex Haley....Which can be both an inspiration of Genealogy and Controversy of plagiarism or did his (family) homework
Yasss!
Awe inspiring
Excellent work!!!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
They thought of just being ripped away from your family then NEVER SEEING THEM AGAIN
Good one, Simon!
Please make one on Charles Taylor, the ruthless American dictator of Liberia!!
I just watched the movie "Harriet" a few weeks ago... It was a GREAT movie! So if this taste about her intrigues you... I urge you to watch the movie!
Awesome job!!!!!
Loved it
1965?! Tubman was an immortal! Lol.
Love the video, y'all! As usual, can we please have a video on IP Man? Many have asked for over two years. Lol. Hell, the Bubonic Plague got a Biographic before the tutor and mentor of Bruce Lee did. Lol :p
Well done Simon!!!
9:59 You are being rescued
*Please do not resist*
You are being freed, if you do not comply you will be forced.
You chose to escape with us and now you want to endanger the others here because of your cowardice, I don't think so...
@@katumispencer THIS.
The time to have doubts about such a dangerous journey is *before* leaving, not halfway to the destination.
Henri "Papillon" Charrière and Devil's Island. I would love to hear about this and I have love vsauce for years! Keep up the great work!
Great Story
1:31 That is now Five Points MARTA station on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta.
Thank you Miss Harriet.
1865, 1965, perhaps by 2065 we can all be civil
The song you mention "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" is actually a map of how to get free.
When the sun comes back and the first quail calls
Follow the drinkin' gourd
left foot peg foot show you the way
Follow the drinkin' gourd
for the old man is waitin' to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd
the river bank is a mighty good road
Follow the drinkin' gourd
dead trees bent to show you the way
Follow the drinkin' gourd
the old man is waitin' to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd
The river ends between two hills
Follow the drinkin' gourd
there's another river on the other side
Follow the drinkin' gourd
A lot of spirituals had those kinds of double meanings. It was how they could spread around without raising suspicion.
Well done.
thank you for this, and others like it. our history has been hidden from us
Great video as always. can you do a bio on Marcel Marceau ? he looks like an interesting guy
My Home Town is Auburn Ny…. I must have been to her home 30 times. It’s a great museum and tangible way to learn about freedom. Great American hero.