Conductor of the UGRRAfter she escaped from slavery, she returned to the south states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. It was very dangerous to be a runaway slave. There we rewards for their capture. Whenever Tubman led a group of slaves to freedom, she places herself in great danger. There was a bounty offered for her capture because she was fugitive slave herself, and she was breaking the laws in slave states by helping others escape.
Tubman made 19 trips and helped out almost 300 people to freedom. During these dangerous journeys, she helped rescue her family, including her 70 year old parents. At one point, rewards for Tubman's capture came up to $40,000. Yet she was never caught and never failed to deliver her 'passengers" to safety. As Tubman herself said "On my Underground Railroad, I never run my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
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If anyone ever wanted to change his/her mind during the journey to freedom and return, she pulled out a gun and said, "You'll be free or die a slave!" She knew that if anyone turned back, it would put her and the other in danger of discovery, capture, or even death. She became well known for leading slaves to freedom that the people started calling her "Moses of the People", which was a reference to the Moses of the Bible who lead his people, the Israelites to freedom. Many slaves dreaming of freedom sang the spiritual "Go Down Moses." Slaves hoped a savior would deliver them from slavery.
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