During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse, and even a spy. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she would spend the rest of her long life.

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

In fact, Harriett Tubman was a gun-toting, Jesus-loving spy who blazed the ... often rightly — of Union soldiers, they were willing to trust Tubman. “To Harriet they would tell anything ...

The Civil War was raging and the vessels were filled with Union troops ... real work as a spy operating within enemy lines.” Biographer Catherine Clinton, author of Harriet Tubman: The Road ...

Harriet Tubman gains her freedom and becomes ... She would later serve as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and ... During the Civil War, Tubman served as a Union nurse, scout and spy, even helping to conduct an assault on Confederate plantations in ...

“I had reasoned this out in my mind,” Tubman once ... service as a spy, the U.S. Congress denied her claim. It paid the eight Black male scouts, but not her. Unlike the Union officers who ...

Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University (THE CONVERSATION) Harriet ... Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are ...

“that woman was Harriet Tubman.” When she sought payment for her service as a spy, the U.S. Congress denied her claim. It paid the eight Black male scouts, but not her. Unlike the Union ...