possible that she may not have become the "Moses of her People." Her legacy to history is that she would not waver in her determination to help  others to  "live  free or die."
To carry out her goal, Harriet risked her life and limb. Throughout the course of the Civil War she served as a Union spy, a nurse, a cook, and the liberator of over 756 slaves on a military campaign in Cumbohee,  South Carolina without losing a man.  40 Even after the conclusion of the war she continued her crusade to improve the lives of others and to fight against injustice, as she understood that the real  battle  for  freedom had not been won.
Another Eastern Shore slave of significance was  Frederick Augustus Bailey Douglass.    Born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, in Dorchester  County,   he   experienced   forced  separation   from   family members and the horrors of slavery at an early age,  as he  "witnessed "Old Master"  whipping Aunt Hester."41     The horrors of slavery and separation were always present because  "as  many  as  80  (slave) traders,  full  or part-time,  operated  on the  Eastern  Shore during  the last years of the (slave) market." 42     Local  "newspaper editors (even)  assured their readers  editorially  that no  stigma would be attached to out of state sales." 43     Despite the cruelties of slavery, Frederick Douglass  was  "not mistreated by Aaron Anthony,"  44 his first master,   but  experienced the  harshness  of slavery  from  the