Harriet Tubman, secret agent
Subtitle: how daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War
By: Thomas B. Allen ; featuring illustrations by Carla Bauer
Contributors: Bauer, Carla, ill
Series: EZ reading
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2006
Place of publication: NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780545156639
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Slaves; Biography; African American women; Underground Railroad; Biography.al
Description: As he did in his highly acclaimed George Washington, Spymaster, author Thomas B. Allen digs back through historical records to present a famous historical figure in a new light. Readers discover that Harriet Tubman--well-known to them as an ex-slave who led hundreds of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad--was also a spy for the Union Army. More specifically she worked behind Confederate lines in South Carolina getting information about troop movement and Rebel fortifications from slaves that she was leading to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-188) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Black Moses; title: Harriet's escape; title: The Underground Railroad; title: Slave revolts; title: John Brown meets the general; title: Trouble at Harpers Ferry; title: The "old colored woman"; title: Trouble in the capital; title: The secret war; title: Black dispatches; title: Black spies and the Anaconda Plan; title: Harriet goes to war; title: The general leads a raid; title: Telling the secrets.