How did Harriet Tubman trick a former slave owner?
Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who fled to the North in 1849. After this, she started helping her family escape the South, and eventually other people too. She ended up saving over 70 people in 13 trips. She was sometimes called Moses because she was freeing her people. In all her trips, she had a few really close encounters with people who were after her.
She tricked him by reading a newspaper! More specifically, she pretended to…
