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A photo of an image taken at Harriet Tubman's funeral. Th abolitionist died in 1913 at the age of 93. (Photo: Copy photo by Melanie Eversley). Harriet Tubman is remembered as an abolitionist, a Civil War spy, and a beacon for freedom-seeking slaves. But she was also a woman who defied simple categorization, according to one of her biographers.
Tubman knew that if anyone turned back, it would put her and the other escaping slaves in danger of discovery, capture or even death. She became so well known for leading slaves to freedom that Tubman became known as the Moses of Her People. Many slaves dreaming of freedom sang the spiritual Go Down Moses. Slaves hoped a savior would deliver them from slavery just as Moses had delivered the Israelites from slavery.