Harriet Tubman is the most famous “conductor” of the Underground Railroad. She was born under the name Araminta Ross, and worked as a slave until after she married. She then ran away to the North, where she learned about the Underground Railroad and subsequently became a “conductor” in it. After she retired as a “conductor,” she ended up serving as a nurse in the Civil War. Her work inspired many abolitionists of the age and people today. Born a slave, she grew up working. When she was a child, she was rented out as a house servant and a babysitter. When she was twelve and working in the fields, she refused to help an overseer beat another slave and got a severe head injury as a result, subjecting her to spells of narcolepsy for the rest of