At age five or six, she began to work as a house servant ... During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse, and even a spy. After the war she settled in Auburn ...

Tubman found work as a housekeeper in Philadelphia ... enslaved people at Fort Monroe and worked as a nurse, cook, and laundress. Harriet used her knowledge of herbal medicines to help treat ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

A plantation overseer threw an iron weight at an enslaved person but Harriet stepped into ... Despite finding work as a free woman, Tubman travelled back to the South at least 13 times to free ...

Harriet Tubman ... as a Union nurse, scout and spy, even helping to conduct an assault on Confederate plantations in 1863 that freed enslaved Americans. Read more about Support the Proposed Chesapeake ...