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Harriet Tubman
Comic Strips
Follow along to find
out about my life, my
work freeing slaves,
and my legacy.
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
Before we get started, tell a
classmate what you already
know about Harriet Tubman
or the underground railroad.
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
Background: Born into
slavery, Harriet Tubman
escaped and helped
hundreds of others do the
same. She actively freed
slaves before and during the
Civil War, and became a wellknown civil rights and
women’s rights advocate
after the Civil War. Follow
along to create a set of comic
strips, use key terms, and
highlight Tubman’s historical
legacy.
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
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Fold your blank paper into 8 squares (4x2). When you see the red numbered symbol,
fill in one of your eight comic strip boxes with a title, caption and drawing for that slide.
Be sure that your titles or captions include all 10 of the key terms listed on the left!
1 (title)
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caption)
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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Fold your blank paper into 8 squares (4x2). When you see the red numbered symbol,
fill in one of your eight comic strip boxes with a title, caption and drawing for that slide.
Be sure that your titles or captions include all 10 of the key terms listed on the left!
1 (title)
2 (title)
(picture with
caption)
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
5 (title)
(picture with
caption)
3 (title)
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caption)
6 (title)
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caption)
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caption)
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caption)
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
Follow along to learn about new terms and create comic
strips to summarize the life of Harriet Tubman.
1 Harriet’s injury and visions
2 Harriet Tubman flees slavery
3 1850 Fugitive Slave Act passes
4 Canada becomes new destination
5 Tubman goes 20 times to free slaves
6 Network of Quakers help the escapees
7 Modern Moses becomes a wanted ‘man’
8 A cook, nurse, scout, and spy for the Union
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1 Harriet’s injury and visions
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As a young girl, Harriet recalled severe beatings at the hands of her
masters. But one incident stands out and changed her destiny. One day, an
overseer asked Harriet to help restrain another slave. When she refused and
ran away, he threw a weight at her head. This knocked her unconscious and
she nearly died from loss of blood and from blood clotting in her brain.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
1 Harriet’s injury and visions
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This severe injury caused seizures, headaches and narcolepsy that
lasted for the rest of her long life (she lived into her nineties). As Tubman was
also known to be a faithful Christian. She claimed that this injury and neardeath experience led to powerful visions and revelations from God throughout
her life.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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2 Harriet Tubman flees slavery
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Harriet’s medical condition made her less valuable to Mr. Brodess
(her owner), who tried several times to sell her, but without success. Harriet
recalled later that she had prayed for God to change his heart or else take his
life. When he died a week later, she felt guilty. But his widow, Eliza Brodess
soon arranged to sell Harriet and her family, splitting them apart.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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2 Harriet Tubman flees slavery
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This is when Harriet began to consider running away. Maryland
bordered the free state of Pennsylvania and her plantation was about 90
miles from the border. On September 17th, 1849, Harriet and her brothers
Ben and Harry escaped. All three returned days later since Ben was about to
become a father, but Harriet soon escaped again by herself.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
2 Harriet Tubman flees slavery
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This is when Harriet began to consider running away. Maryland
bordered the free state of Pennsylvania and her plantation was about 90
miles from the border. On September 17th, 1849, Harriet and her brothers
Ben and Harry escaped. All three returned days later since Ben was about to
become a father, but Harriet soon escaped again by herself.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=SmMKaXJPmws
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3 1850 Fugitive Slave Act passes
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The Compromise of 1850 was an agreement between pro-slavery
and anti-slavery advocates. The compromise was this:
* California would enter the Union as a free state (making one more free state
than slave state and disrupting the balance)
* The Fugitive Slave Act would go into law, forcing those in free states to
return escaped slaves to plantations in the south
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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3 1850 Fugitive Slave Act passes
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The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act (as part of the Compromise of
1850) meant that free states in the north weren’t really free. Escaped slaves
in the northern free states would be living in fear of being captured and
returned to their masters in the southern slave states.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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4 Canada becomes new destination
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Since northern free states were no longer a safe haven for escaped
slaves, Canada became a popular final destination. Canada had already
outlawed slavery and had no laws obligating citizens to return former slaves
to their American owners. Tubman worked to help escapees get from
Maryland to Pennsylvania, and then to Canada via New York.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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4 Canada becomes new destination
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Some escaped to Canada by coming up the Mississippi River, often
going through Chicago, then getting on boats via the Great Lakes. Others
made their way to Detroit, then crossed over. Still others (such as those
aided by Harriet Tubman) went through New York.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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5 Tubman goes 20 times to free slaves
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Harriet Tubman is believed to have gone back to Dorchester County,
Maryland 19 or 20 times, bringing 10 or more escaped slaves to the free state
of Pennsylvania each time. In all, she helped around 300 slaves in their
escapes. Many of those slaves continued the journey north until they
reached Canada.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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6 Network of Quakers help the escapees
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Of course, Tubman operated under the cover of darkness. And of
course, Tubman did not work alone. During her missions, she used a network
of former slaves, free blacks, and white abolitionists. Most of these white
abolitionists were from a group of Christians called Quakers who used their
homes as ‘stations’.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
Conductor = one
leading slaves to
freedom
Station = an
abolitionist safehouse to stop for
rest
Passengers =
escaped slaves
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6 Network of Quakers help the escapees
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This network was called the Underground Railroad. It was not a
railroad, but it did move people from state-to-state. It was not underground,
but it was largely hidden from authorities.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
Conductor = one
leading slaves to
freedom
Station = an
abolitionist safehouse to stop for
rest
Passengers =
escaped slaves
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7 Modern Moses becomes a wanted ‘man’
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Harriet Tubman came to be known as “The Modern Moses” since she
freed her people in a way that was reminiscent of Moses freeing the Hebrews
from Egyptian slavery. It was said that Tubman “never lost a passenger”
during her missions to Maryland.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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7 Modern Moses becomes a wanted ‘man’
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Many didn’t believe that this work could be done by a woman. Early
on, in fact, authorities believed that this criminal who helped slaves escape
must have been a man. Check out some of the wanted posters from the time
period…
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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8 A cook, nurse, scout, and spy for the Union
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When the Civil War began, Tubman joined the Union Army (North) as
a cook and a nurse. She also worked as a scout and spy. Harriet even was
known to carry a gun, something that was not typical for a woman at that time
in history.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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8 A cook, nurse, scout, and spy for the Union
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In fact, It is believed that she was the first woman to lead an armed in
any U.S. War. Specifically, Harriet led the so-called “Combahee River Raid”,
which was an operation that led to the liberation of more than 700 slaves in
South Carolina. Later in life, she became very active in the Women’s
Suffrage Movement in New York. She became ill and died in 1913 at the
approximate age of 93.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
8 A cook, nurse, scout, and spy for the Union
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In fact, It is believed that she was the first woman to lead an armed in
any U.S. War. Specifically, Harriet led the so-called “Combahee River Raid”,
which was an operation that led to the liberation of more than 700 slaves in
South Carolina. Later in life, she became very active in the Women’s
Suffrage Movement in New York. She became ill and died in 1913 at the
approximate age of 93.
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsNGrkbHm4
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Harriet Tubman Comic Strips
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Fold your blank paper into 8 squares (4x2). When you see the red numbered symbol,
fill in one of your eight comic strip boxes with a title, caption and drawing for that slide.
Be sure that your titles or captions include all 10 of the key terms listed on the left!
1 (title)
2 (title)
(picture with
caption)
1 Slavery
2 Abolition
3 Abolitionist
4 Canada
5 Conductor
6 Station
7 Quaker
8 Maryland
9 Pennsylvania
10 Civil War
5 (title)
(picture with
caption)
3 (title)
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caption)
Have you used all 10
words on the left? Does
each
box have7 (title)
a title,
6 (title)
caption and image?
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caption)
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caption)
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caption)
4 (title)
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caption)
8 (title)
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caption)