![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years scholars and schoolchildren have begun to recognize her significant contributions to guaranteeing Union victory in the Civil War.īorn in 1825 to enslaved parents on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the young Araminta, her birth name, was severely challenged. ![]() Her role as an American patriot is undisputed, but her service as a war hero was challenged at the time. She enrolled first as a nurse, and then expanded her efforts to serve as a scout and spy for the Union in occupied South Carolina. Shortly after Abraham Lincoln’s call to arms in April 1861, Tubman realized that joining forces with the Federal military would increase her effectiveness in the fight against slavery, and she volunteered for duty. In 1860 she helped liberate runaway slave Charles Nalle from a slave catcher in Troy, N.Y. Tubman wasn’t afraid of assisting her escaped brothers and sisters either. As a renowned abolitionist and intrepid Underground Railroad conductor who went into slave territory to lead refugees to safety in the North and Canada, she had undertaken numerous clandestine and dangerous rescues. ![]() When the Civil War began, Harriet Tubman had already been a freedom fighter for more than a decade. Harriet Tubman helped plan a South Carolina river raid that freed hundreds of slaves. The Legacy of Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter and Spy Close ![]()
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