This month we celebrate Black History, our blog for the duration of February will be a tribute to all those who fought the fight for equality, not for African Americans only, but that all men be treated just and equal.
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross in March of 1822, was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.
As a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, Harriet Tubman was beaten by various masters to whom she was hired out. Early in her life, she suffered a head wound when hit by a heavy metal weight. The injury caused disabling seizures, headaches, and powerful visionary and dream activity, which occurred throughout her entire life. A devout Christian, Harriet Tubman ascribed the visions and vivid dreams to revelations from God.
In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, after reaching Philadelphia, she began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. " My father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free." She began to work odd jobs and save money. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night, Harriet Tubman or "Moses", as she was called "never lost a passenger". Large rewards were offered for the return of many of the fugitive slaves, but no one then knew that Tubman was the one helping them.
Harriet Tubman put into action the love for her family and other slaves every where in the country that lived under the cruel treatment of slavery in America. She risked her life by means of the underground railroad to free blacks in America. She knew that it was a possibility that those who were out to kill her could suceed, but assured that her relationship with Christ was real, that if she died or was murdered, she would have true freedom. In a letter to a friend, she stated, "if I never see you again, I'll see you in the kingdom."
Let us stop saying we love people; let us really love them, and show it by our actions. How can we see someone in need and won't help them. We ought to lay down our lives for each other, we talk a good game but our actions are just the opposite. Blacks in America thrived because of the actions of those, some who even laid down there lives, so that we would have a life of freedom. Stop talking about what you should do, let's see what you can do! Action speaks louder than words, put your godliness on display, we've already heard what you had say.
Well said. We do need to put our love into action. I had a family member who made me furious. I wanted to stop speaking and erase them from my family tree. But God continued to speak volumes to me that we have to stop being so judgmental and show love, as it will win people to him. Plus, love does covers a multitude of our sins. Let's love one another for real, just as God showed us love, mercy, forgivness..the list goes on and on...
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