Harriet Tubman Secret Agent Author:Thomas B. Allen How daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War. — Like Moses in the Bible, Harriet Tubman, as the "Black Moses," worked as a spy. The Moses of the Bible secretly gathered information by sending spies into Canaan, the Promised Land. Moses was a spymaster--and so was the Black Moses. Harriet T... more »ubman spied for the Union and talked ex-slaves into doing the same, sometimes even going into Confederate territory to help Union soldiers gather information that could win battles. She and all the other African Americans who spied for the Union knew the price of their courage: If they were caught, they could be hanged.
She was not alone. She was one of countless--and usually unknown--African Americans who served the Union as spies. This book is about Harriet, but it is also about some of those other spies who served in what Frederick Douglass, himself a runaway slave, called the "true history" of the Civil War.
Coded messages appear throughout this book. Use Elizabeth Van Lew's code to deciper them, then check your answers on the author's web site.« less