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Ezekiel Geffken
7\8A 4/1/09

Name: Harriet Tubman

Age: 11(in story)

What Year Their Story Took Place: Early 1830’s

Rights Denied: She was denied all of her rights when she was in slavery but here are some rights that denied her of her childhood experience.

When children are born, they are free and each should be treated in the same way.
They have reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a friendly manner.
Everyone can claim the following rights, despite a different skin color.
You have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety.
Nobody has the right to treat you as his or her slave and you should not make anyone your slave.
Nobody has the right to torture you.
You should be able to ask for legal help when the rights your country grants you are not respected.

Image of Harriet Tubman:

Event Experienced: in this event that she experienced, she was in a store buying dry goods when the store owners slave ran away. The store owner yelled at Harriet to run after him so she ran a couple feet until she stopped and the slave was already next to the exit. As he was opening it the shop keeper came out with a 2lb metal weight and threw it. He totally missed the slave and hit Harriet. She was hit in the head and forcefully fell to the ground. The weight fractured her skull and she was unconscious and bleeding. The shopkeeper quickly grabbed her and took her back to her mother where she would stay for 2 days without seeing a doctor or specialist. After she was bandaged up she went back to work, but frequently fainted unconscious during work and without warning. She would faint in the most random of times and you couldn’t tell when or why either. After coming back home she obeyed her owner’s commands and went back to work, although she was in pain.
Harriet was frightened by what happened because she was bleeding a lot, she became dizzy sometimes from the loss of blood, and she kept fainting.
She finally survived by being nursed back to health by her mother. She constantly prayed to God and asked him if he would heal her. She was a very serious Christian and prayed with and for her whole family. Finally, after many weeks of struggling and pain she had recovered and was working in the fields again.
When Harriet Tubman is telling her story, she will be sad. She will be fluent and exclaim some parts of her story for a dramatic affect.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman, The Britannica Encyclopedia, http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman, http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/aa/activists/tubman/youth1