She was an activist, an abolitionist, a nurse, a union spy, and last but not least a union scout in the civil war making her the first woman to lead a combat assault. She spent her entire life being a humanitarian and helping fellow African-American people escape from slavery. Having grown up enslaved, to enslaved parents Harriet's life wasn't easy, she suffered for 30 years until she decided she would escape from the plantation she had been imprisoned in her entire life. Once she had escaped, there was no going back; here laid the foundation to what was to become one of the greatest stories of freedom in Maryland, USA.