USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the “Moses of her people, ” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad.

Detailed explanation-2: -Working with Major General David Hunter, Tubman also began spying and scouting behind Confederate lines. On June 1, 1863 she joined Colonel James Montgomery and his 2nd South Carolina Infantry, composed of emancipated slaves, in an assault on several plantations along the Combahee River.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad’s “conductors.” During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.