Edda Fields-Black

I mean, who does that?

She rescues about 70 people.

Personally, rescues, brings out of slavery 70 people.

So as the Civil War is nearing and after she makes her last rescue mission and is not able to rescue her sister and her sister's children...

Tubman is being advised really to kind of cool it, right?

This war is getting ready to happen.

We don't know what's going to go on.

And once the war gets started, the governor of Massachusetts makes the arrangements for her to serve as a spy for the U.S.

Army.

In November 1861, the U.S.

Navy captured Beaufort, Port Royal, and the Sea Islands from the Confederacy.

And the next day, the U.S.

Army occupied these territories.

But before the U.S.

Navy's ships arrived, the plantation owners, slave owners, fled.

And they left behind about 8000 enslaved people.

And the U.S.

Army decrees that it's not going to return the property in quotes of the Confederates.

We're not enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act anymore.

You have forfeited your property and we're going to keep them.