Harriet Tubman was a great leader. By the time she turned nineteen, she had helped 300 slaves escape. She later said,” I never ran my train off track, and I never lost a passenger.” (Lutz and Schlesinger). She also said that she would take any slave who was willing to take the dangerous journey to freedom. She said, “If he is was weak enough to give up, he would be weak enough to betray us all. Do you think I would let so many die for one coward