How does the 2019 film Harriet represent the American history by referencing the Underground Railroad and the Civil Rights Movement? How does it create new type of American identity in recent years in the American identity?

The film portrays the life of Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who dedicated her life to freeing other slaves. Tubman used a series of secret routes, safehouses, and allies, which became known as the Underground Railroad. The movie takes a multifaceted approach, showing both her accomplishments (the epilogue, for instance, talks about her work freeing slaves in the Civil War as a Union spy) and herself as a person, focusing a lot on Harriet's (then known as Minty) time as a slave and her motivation to free her family.

This humanizes her, making her less of an abstract and almost legendary historical figure and portraying her as a woman with her own dreams and goals whose accomplishments were born of determination. I would say this is the way in which it creates a new type of American identity: By portraying a type of American story that has usually been treated as a footnote.

Tubman died in 1913, before what is commonly referred to as the "Civil Rights Movement" of the 1960's. However, if we consider that movement to be a continuation of the struggle for rights in society, especially by African Americans, Tubman can be considered a hero of the early wave of the Civil Rights Movement.