Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War

Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
ISBN-10
1426304013
ISBN-13
9781426304019
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
191
Language
English
Published
2008-12
Publisher
National Geographic Books
Author
Thomas B. Allen

Description

Provides a biography of this courageous ex-slave who worked to establish the Underground Railroad, became a Union Army spy, and helped more than seven hundred slaves find their way to freedom in the North.

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