The Path To Freedom

• Is human nature fundamentally good or bad

• Can legislation change human behavior?

• Should we seek gradual or immediate changes to society?

• Can society be improved by active involvement or by withdrawal?

• What makes the good society?

About: Harriet Ross was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Given the names of her two parents, both held in slavery, she was of purely African ancestry. She was raised under harsh conditions, and subjected to whippings even as a small child. At the age of 12 she was seriously injured by a blow to the head, inflicted by a white overseer for refusing to assist in tying up a man who had attempted escape. At the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American. Five years later, fearing she would be sold South, she made her escape.Tubman was given a piece of paper by a white neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination.  In 1851 she began relocating members of her family to St. Catharine's, (Ontario) Canada West. North Street in St. Catharine's remained her base of operations until 1857. While there she worked at various activities to save to finance her activities as a Conductor on the UGRR, and attended the Salem Chapel BME Church on Geneva Street.

Human Nature can be good, but also bad when it is influence upon the law. When the law is commanding them to follow certain rules instead of what is right, then they are conveyed to not follow what they think is right. This however leads to the fact that legislation can lead to a change in human behavior. Until human behavior changes, people will still be TOO afraid, TOO oppressed, to speak out about abolishing slavery, and letting women have their rights. We need to seek gradual changes immediately because right now, the time period in which we are will be looked upon by thousands in future.  An idyllic or good society is one that is actually for the people. Right now, we are constantly being told that society is for the people but it is only including a certain group of people. ":For the People" is excluding women and slaves. Is that a "For the People" government?