Answer:
<u>from the book: "The Lady, or the Tiger" by Frank R. Stockton</u>
Explanation:
The original paragraph in the book where we get this quote reads;
"When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, public notice was given that on an appointed day <em>the fate of the accused person would be decided in the king's arena, a structure which well deserved its name, </em>for, although its form and plan were borrowed from afar, its purpose emanated solely from the brain of this man, who, every barleycorn a king, knew no tradition to which he owed more allegiance than pleased his fancy, and who ingrafted on every adopted form of human thought and action the rich growth of his barbaric idealism."
Answer:
Harriet Tubman (c.1822-1913) was an American abolitionist. She is famous for her efforts to help the slaves.
- Harriet's real name was Araminta Ross. It was only later that she adopted the name 'Harriet' after her mother.
- Harriet was born a slave herself and grew up on Maryland's Eastern Shore, with both free and enslaved people. Harriet's husband, however, was a free man. When she fled to Pennsylvania, he did not accompany her and eventually re-married.
- When trying to escape from slavery, she employed multiple disguises - she would pretend to be a field hand and a horse-servant, or to read newspapers. As her owners knew she could not read, they did not suspect it was her.
- Harriet had a nickname 'Moses', after the prophet Moses in the Bible who helped his people gain freedom. She got this nickname because she returned to Maryland many times in an attempt to rescue other slaves.
- During the Civil War, Harriet worked as a nurse, as well as a spy.
