From a life of slavery to being a conductor, a spy, a nurse, and an abolitionist. These were the roles that Harriet Tubman played throughout her lifetime. Harriet Tubman was born as a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland to the name Araminta Ross, in the year 1822 or around that time. Since 1849 to her death in 1913, she did remarkable things for others including being a conductor of the underground railroad, a spy for the union troops, a caretaker, and a nurse for the wounded soldiers of the Union. Even though all of Harriet Tubman’s work is exceptional, her work as a nurse and caretaker was her greatest achievement.
One of Harriet Tubman’s most famous roles was her job as a conductor of the Underground Railroad. She spent 10 years freeing a total of 38 slaves from various plantations (Document B). Harriet “abducted” most of the slaves she helped lead to freedom from Dorchester County, Maryland. From there, she led them to St. Catherines in Canada or to Philadelphia (Document A and B). She often travelled a distance of approximately 520 miles in order to help slaves escape (Document A).
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She joined the Union troops and travelled to South Carolina with a team of eight black spies (Document C). Harriet served as a spy for 2.5 years to provide information for a Union raid called the Combahee River Raid. This raid, which was conducted on June 2, 1863 was meant to free slaves (Document C). With the help of Colonel James Montgomery, she freed 800 enslaved people in a single night (Document C). Harriet was given the nickname “Moses” because she freed African Americans from slavery, like how Moses freed all the Israelites from