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100 years after her death, new honors for Harriet Tubman. Harriett Tubman is remembered an abolitionist, a Civil War spy, and a beacon for slaves seeking freedom, but she was also a woman who defied simple categorization, according to one of her biographers. Post to Facebook. Cancel Send.
What Harriet Did. Through her actions to free other slaves, Tubman became known as âMosesâ and attracted the attenion of southern slave owners who had bounties on her totaling approximately $40,000. She is accredited with at least thirteen missions that freed more than 70 slaves, through the Underground Railroad.