"They Called Her Moses"

"General Harriet Tubman" 

" The Greatest Heroine of the Age"

 

Do you need someone to teach Leadership?

To motivate your youth groups to become strong ethical leaders? 

Do you want to provide a creative learning environment

that is both educational and entertaining? 

                                          

                                               Brown Tones Productions  

 

                                                                                    

 

 Brings You as Close to Meeting Harriet Tubman as You will Ever Be

 

                                An interactive workshop that brings Harriet Tubman

                                               to you to interview her about her life leadership skills. 

 

                "They Called Her Moses"

                     Lessons in Leadership from Harriet Tubman

 

If you know anything about leadership qualities, or if you know nothing, and you  just Google "leadership"  

you will find some comment leadership traits that all scholars will list.  

 

For each one of these qualities, I can give you a story about Harriet Tubman and her leadership.

She overcame all odds against her to emancipate herself and to return to lead others to their own freedom. 

She had what it take to be given the title of the "Greatest Heroine of her Age."

 

Above all, she did what was Right. She was a true ethcal leader.

                             

Dignity:  Harriet Tubmanfelt like she had the right to her Freedom or Death, and she took action to have one of the other,

She maintained a dignity in the pride she portrayed in her race and herself and her choice was Freedom.    

                                                                                                                                                                              

Integrity: Harriet Tubman's followers trusted her to lead them in the middle of the night and she was someone who could

fall asleep anywhere, anytime. She also could not read or write, you followed Harriet Tubman because of trust.

 

People-oriented: Harriet Tubman lived to be 93 years old, she care for people in their quest for freedom, but she also

established a convalescent home in Auburn New York for anyone who needed a place to stay. 

 

Character: Harriet Tubmanwas known for her dependability, her honesty and her loyalty to her people.  If there were a need,

she would be there. She also worked as a nurse, as scout and a spy in the Civil War. She was not fully paid for her service.

It was not until 2003 that then Senator of New York, Hillary Clinton requested payment of the full pension for  Harriet Tubman.

Clinton requested $11,750.

 

Visionary:  Harriet Tubman lead people all the way to St. Catherine Canada where she help people start new lives.

She traveled over 500 miles one-way to assure that the people she led to freedom maintained their freedom.

She was responsible for their future in the land of freedom.  She envisioned a better life for them in Canada.

 

Assertiveness: Harriet Tubman led a gun raid that freed almost 800 people in the Civil war, but she did not stop

with freeing these people, she helped them learn how to take care of themselves. She personally asked

Colonel James Montgomery to lead this raid of 300 freed black soldiers.

 

Magnanimity: Harriet Tubmanalways gave God the credit for what she was able to do.  She credits the support

of black people, white people and Native Americans in helping on the Underground Railroad.  Without theses unified forces,

she knows she would not have been successful.

 

Inspirational:   Harriet Tubman empowered others to be self-sufficient. At night, she would make pies and root beer

and she would hire women to sale it to the soldiers. Harriet Tubman taught women how to sew and to clean the

uniforms for the soldiers. These newly freed people were inspired to make a new life for themselves.

 

Dedication: Harriet Tubman dedicated her life to the care of others.  Always even in her later years, she supported the

women's suffrage movement and when someone came to ask for advise, she encourage them to keep on fighting and to

 stick together.

 

Charismatic: Harriet Tubman was named General Tubman by John Brown because he knew of her leadership abilities.

 John Brown knew that Harriet Tubman would bring people together to support him in his own efforts to fight against slavery.

 

Sense of Humor: Harriet Tubman her great sense of humor, she spent told stories about her life and was a popular speaker

during the abolitions movement in the Northern States.  Harriet Tubman had to be creative and she used disguises and often

would back track her steps to keep from being captures. She tells the stories of how she out smarted her pursuers.

 

Fairness:  Harriet Tubman returned to Maryland at least 3 times trying to rescue her sister Rachel and her two children. 

 Rachel died before she could get to her and she was unable to reach the children. She took a family with three small children

back instead for her last trip before the War.

 

Influence:  Harriet Tubman led a rescue mission in Troy New York where there was a man name Charles Nalle that had a half

 brother, a white man who was trying to take him back to slavery.  She was just passing through town, but she stopped long

enough to rescue this man. 

Brown Tones Storytellers:
Karol and James Brown