Land, to indicate whether it was safe for freedom seekers to come out of hiding. Many people called her the "Moses of her people." During the American Civil War, Tubman also worked as a spy, cook, and a nurse. Notable people Notable people who gained or assisted others in gaining freedom via the Underground Railroad include: Henry "Box" Brown John Brown (abolitionist), who would later lead the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry. He had a hidden room in his tannery building for fugitive slaves. Owen Brown, father of John Brown Elizabeth Margaret Chandler Levi Coffin Frederick Douglass Calvin Fairbank Thomas Garrett Shields Green Laura Smith Haviland Lewis Hayden Josiah Henson Isaac Hopper Roger Hooker Leavitt Samuel J. May Dangerfield Newby John Parker John Wesley Posey John Rankin Alexander Milton Ross David Ruggles Samuel Seawell James Lindsay Smith William Still Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Charles Augustus Wheaton Communities Colonial America Spanish Florida Fort Mose British Florida Negro Fort United States List of Freedmen's towns Civil War Camp Greene (Washington, D.C.) - Civil war camp Theodore Roosevelt Island - Civil war camp Canada Africville - Nova Scotia Birchtown - Nova Scotia Dawn settlement - Ontario Elgin settlement - Ontario Fort Malden - Ontario Queen's Bush - Ontario See also Abolitionism Maroon (people), African refugees who escaped slavery in the Americas and formed settlements Slave Trade Compromise and Fugitive Slave Clause References Sources External links Maap.columbia.edu Spartacus-educational.com Nps.gov Slavenorth.com Pbs.org Slaveryamerica.org Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a database of Fugitives from American Slavery Library.thinkquest.org Query.nytimes.com Wicourts.gov Eca.state.gov "Millard Fillmore on the Fugitive Slave and Kansas-Nebraska Acts: Original Letter", Shapell Manuscript Foundation 19th century in the United States 19th century in Canada Escapees from American detention Slavery in the United States Canada–United States border Underground Railroad