Any student of American history is no stranger to Harriet Tubman. Called the Moses of Her People, Tubman famously escaped slavery herself in 1849 and then returned to guide family and friends to freedom along the Underground Railroad. She freed dozens of people through her work in the 1850s. Perhaps her most significant, but less celebrated, contributions came during the Civil War, when she worked for the Union as a nurse, soldier, and spy.
Tubman’s skills and abilities, honed in the backwoods of Maryland as she spirited people north, were crucial to penetrating slave-holding power in South Carolina and delivering a devastating blow to the Confederacy. In one night, she led a mission that freed hundreds.
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