Who was this woman?

Question

Nicknamed "Moses," she led more than 300 slaves to freedom. During the civil war, she served the union army as a cook, spy, nurse, and scout, but she was never paid for her work. She later opened a home for the aged in New York. Who was She?

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* Harriet Tubman

The Woman Called "Moses"
During the 1850s, Harriet Tubman was legendary for her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. After her own escape from slavery, she helped more than 300 slaves escape. Her commitment to the cause was beyond ordinary dedication, which earned her the name "Moses."
Tubman was born to Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820 or 1821. As a baby, she was called Araminta, but she later changed her name to Harriet after her mother.

Life as a slave was not easy for Tubman. At the age of six, she began working as a house servant for people her master hired her out to. As a teenager she worked in the fields. As many other slaves experienced, she was treated cruelly. Despite hardship, her courage was apparent in her youth. When she was thirteen, she blocked the way of an overseer who was trying to capture a fleeing slave. She was hit in the head with a two-pound weight that was intended for the fugitive slave. Thereafter, she was subjected to sudden sleeping spells.

In 1844, Tubman married John Tubman, a free black. In 1849, after her master's estate had been broken up, she feared that she would be sold. She told her husband that she planned to escape, but he threatened to turn her in. After she learned that she had in fact been sold to a Georgia slave trader, she secretly devised a plan without her husband's knowledge. On the night of her escape, she traveled to Bucktown, where she sought the assistance of a white woman. She had met the woman on several occasions while working in the fields. The woman had offered her assistance, so Tubman took a chance that she was sincere.

When she arrived at the woman's house, she was told of two places she could safely stop. Tubman traveled through the woods and the next morning she reached the first stop where a woman fed her, then gave her a broom and told her to sweep out front so that it would look like she belonged there. That night the woman's husband loaded his wagon with produce and Tubman lay under a blanket in with it. They traveled for several hours to the next destination where she was instructed to follow the river to the next stop. She followed the river to a station where she was rowed up the Choptank River. As she traveled on, she was hidden on a Quaker farm, in a haystack on a farm belonging to German immigrants, and in a potato hole in a cabin belonging to free blacks. By the time she reached Pennsylvania, she had traveled 90 miles to freedom.

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Harriet Tubman was the woman. She was born a slave, escaped to the North. She made numerous trips back to the south to rescue other slaves, despite her fainting problems (she'd fall asleep without warning due to a childhood injury to her head) and the large bounty. She was named Moses because like the Moses from the Bible, she led her people out of slavery