For example, if you have an insurance business and plan to add investments or comprehensive financial planning to your practice, then you will need to be licensed (and perhaps certified) accordingly. 3.
Coffin's organization generally helped the escaped slaves move onward to Canada, where they could not be captured and returned to slavery in the American South. A prominent figure associated with the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery in Maryland in the late 1840s. She returned two years later to help some of her relatives escape.
Harriet made 19 trips on the Underground Railroad and helped to free more than 300 slaves. Harriet became known as âMoses of her people,â for leading them to freedom. Harriet had become well known and huge rewards were offered for her capture. Tubman was never caught and never lost a slave in any of her 19 trips. During the Civil War, Harriet was a spy for the Union army.