Harriet Tubman Earns the Name "Moses"

By the mid-1850s, freedom seekers and abolitionists alike called Harriet Tubman "Moses" — the deliverer of her people. Over approximately 13 missions between 1849 and 1860, she guided roughly 70 people out of slavery across the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She famously said she never lost a passenger and that she would have freed thousands more "if they had known they were slaves." A $40,000 bounty was offered for her capture.