“My name is HARRIET TUBMAN. I was born in the 1820’s. I escaped from slavery in the mid-1800’s and using the “underground railroad” I made many dangerous rescue trips to the South to lead more than 300 slaves escape to their freedom. My father taught me my knowledge of the woods that later helped me in my rescue missions. When I was 13, I interfered with supervisor to save another slave from punishment. “Sir, the boy’s done no harm, please sir, return him to his work.” The enraged supervisor fractured my skull with a 2-pound weight. I recovered but suffered blackouts for the rest of my life. In the Civil War, I served as a nurse and scout. During one military campaign, I helped free more than 750 slaves. I was never caught, and never lost a slave on any of my 19 rescue trips. “Dark and thorny is the pathway where the pilgrim makes his ways; But beyond this vale of sorrow, lie the fields of endless days….”
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ZAIKYRRAH WATSON-GARDNER Age 15
I would like to be in a world where everybody’s equal and given a fair chance from start to finish no matter what skin color they were born with. My quote is from Harriet Tubman and I think was she was just trying to tell her story. If I were president I wouldn’t make a big deal about the Border, I understand it but I think we should give everybody a chance at a better life if they want one, so an law I would enact is if the family have done no wrong or severed time for doing wrong, depending on the crime would be allowed to cross the border. No waiting on green cards that can take years , just a simple back ground check. My goal is to become an amazing artist, to write songs that I enjoy and be successful at it rather than singing just what the world want to hear. Most of my hobbies is song writing and drawing while listening to music , it’s my safe place.