Question

Tubman and Douglass took different approaches to win slaves’ freedom. Was one approach better or more necessary than the other?

Answer 1

In addition to leading more than 300 enslaved people to freedom, Harriet Tubman helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by aiding the Union during the American Civil War. She served as a scout and a nurse, though she received little pay or recognition.

: Douglass viewed Tubman's work as a basic equal because he says, "Excepting John Brown -- of sacred memory -- I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have." This shows that Tubman's work was of equal rank compared to that of John Brown

Douglass said it best in an 1868 letter to “Dear Harriet” Tubman, commenting on her nocturnal journeys: The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public…. I have wrought in the day — you in the night.

But all in all, they all fought against slavery and were able to escape to freedom all the way through the Underground Railroad. Another difference between Harried and Fredrick is that, Harriet physically freed the slaves through her own tactics, while Fredrick Douglass only taught them how they could free themselves