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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.
Tubman's former activities as a conductor on the Underground Railroad made her especially useful as a scout during the conflict. With the help of Sarah Bradford, she wrote her autobiography, Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People, (1869). With the royalties from the book and a small pension from the United States Army she purchased a house in Auburn, New York and turned it into a home for the aged and needy.