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