Sermons On The First Readings
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1821. Like all slaves in that time period Harriet, together with her ten sisters and brothers and her mother and father, worked the fields, in this case a large tobacco plantation. Day after day, week by week over many years, slaves did the same thing. At sunrise work began and at sundown it ended; the monotony of existence was severe. Certainly slavery was an ignoble existence, not only because of the menial and backbreaking work, but more importantly because it was a life which degraded human dignity.
