Harriet The Spy: Author Brings Tubman's Civil War Espionage To Life In New Novel

There are some stories that bear repeating over and over. One of
those stories is Harriet Tubman’s. A new movie about the heroic
abolitionist, known as the “Moses of her people”, is coming out
Nov. 1. Tubman, who escaped slavery and established an underground
railroad network to free others, may have also been known as
"Harriet, the Spy." Historian and best-selling author Elizabeth
Cobbs spoke with On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott about
Tubman's involvement as a nurse and scout serving the U.S. Army
during a critical point of the Civil War. Cobbs' latest novel, The
Tubman Command , is a novel imagining Tubman's role as the first
African-American woman to serve in the military. Interview
Highlights On Harriet Tubman’s early life and plantation escape She
was a young woman, she was 27, she was married, which I think a lot
of people don't realize. And she wanted her husband to go with her
and he would not. He was a free man. And she escapes by herself and
on her own and she gets