In this installment, Hale tells his British captors about Harriet Tubman, the spy and nurse who helped hundreds of American slaves run away in the 1800s on the Underground Railroad. The Underground Abductor is another great book in the series.Gr 3–7-In this series, a fictionalized Nathan Hale (a patriot from the American Revolutionary War) tells stories about America's most extraordinary heroes and villains. There aren’t as many jokes as in other Hazardous Tales books but it still has a light enough touch that things are never too grim to put off readers. The book chronicles her exploits in an exciting and engaging manner. She went on to a “happily ever after” life of retirement with her family in New York.
When the war broke out, she worked as a spy for the Union and freed about 800 slaves in a daring raid on the Combahee River in South Carolina. She also led anyone else willing to escape from slavery.
She then began working to get the rest of her family out of Maryland. After establishing herself as a free women, she changed her name to Harriet. her siblings sold to plantation owners who lived further south where conditions were much worse. She fled to Philadelphia when her family was starting to be “sold South,” i.e. Later she married the free black man John Tubman. This ability comes in very handy (sort of–she does fall asleep at unexpected moments) in her life. During this unnatural sleep, she had strange visions of the future, including nearby dangers. Her owners were hard on her, even causing a head injury that seems to have caused narcolepsy, the condition where people unexpectedly and suddenly fall asleep. She had many varied tasks as a child, none of which she was very good at. She was born Araminta Ross and her whole family was owned by Edward Brodess, a land owner on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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