Due to her up-bring, character traits, and accomplishments in her life, she became the famous "Moses" of the Underground Railroad. ... Driving oxen around the field and chopping trees down proves that this lady was a force to be reckon with. ... While saving lives and leading thousands of black slaves to freedom, Harriet Tubman was well known and goes down in history as the Moses of the Underground Railroad. While Harriet Tubman goes down in history as one of the greatest black women of all times, she gave her heart and soul to free slaves and to abolish slavery. ...

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Many African Americans knew her as "Moses of her people-(voices of triumph); "Moses being the biblical figure who led Jews from Egypt-(world book encyclopedia vol 19) helped about 300 enslaved African (the new encyclopedia Britannica) travel north reaching and crossing over Mason-Dixon Line, the line that divided the free from the slave states (us News). ... She developed a sleeping sickness, which cause her to fall asleep involuntarily, sometimes causing her to fall asleep as soon as she sat down. ... Harriet was said to have walked by the house in which her parents were working in singing "...

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Popular conductors of the Underground Railroad included James Fairfield (a white abolitionist who went into the Deep South and freed slaves by posing as a slave trader), Harriet Tubman (who became known as "Moses" in 1849 when she made nineteen trips to the South and helped free at least 300 slaves), and African American abolitionist John Parker of Ripley, Ohio (who ventured to Kentucky and Virginia and helped transport hundreds of runaways across the Ohio River). ... Some spiritual songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "Steal Away to Jesus," and "Go Down Moses" carried coded messages rela...

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