Moral Courage

We are doing a project on moral courage. Moral courage is standing up for what you believe in, especially when you do it for the good of others, the greater good. We had to choose a person we thought was morally courageous and have 5-7 facts about that person. I chose Harriet Tubman. Here are my facts:

• Harriet Tubman was a slave who escaped her plantation in Maryland.
• She smuggled hundreds of slaves into the free states via the underground railroad, which was a network of safe houses or people who would let you stay at their house even if the people staying were runaway slaves.
  
• I think she is morally courageous because she risked her life many times to smuggle hundreds of slaves to freedom.
• She smuggled slaves for 10 years.
• She was a wanted criminal and by 1856, there was a $40,000 reward for Harriet Tubman's capture.
• She was born a slave and one of her most dangerous trips was to take her parents to freedom.
• In all of her trips to go bring slaves to freedom she never got caught.