America’s first psychic spy

You might’ve heard that Harriet Tubman is one of the top contenders to be the first woman on U.S. paper currency – the $10 bill. She lived an amazing and heroic life and would be very worthy of the honor. But it’s not widely known that Tubman was psychic and used her abilities on the Underground Railroad transporting freed slaves to the North. She also later worked as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and it seems likely she used her mysterious abilities once again.

Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland in the early 1820s and was nearly killed by an overseer who struck her in the forehead with a two-pound piece of lead after she refused to help him hold onto a boy slave who was trying to escape. Tubman died and came back and, in the aftermath, began experiencing visions of the future.  She was able to escape from slavery in 1849 and become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War.

She returned to the South numerous times to rescue both family members and non-relatives from the plantation system. She helped hundreds of slaves escape and was never caught, a fact that she attributed to her precognitive abilities. She said she was able to see into the future to where the slave hunters would be searching for her. She was also able to see houses where the people would take in runaway slaves, feed them, and give them a place to sleep for the night.

She became known as the Moses of her people and the most famous ‘conductor’ on the Underground Railroad, an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose. In early 1858, Tubman had a vision that she would meet abolitionist John Brown, who advocated the use of violence to disrupt and destroy the institution of slavery. In April of that year, she was introduced to him. Tubman shared his goals and tolerated his methods. When Brown began recruiting supporters for an attack on slaveholders at Harper’s Ferry, he called on ‘General Tubman’ for help. After Brown was executed, Tubman praised him as a martyr.

When the Civil War broke out, Tubman worked for the Union Army as a cook and nurse. But because of her background and unique abilities, she quickly became an armed scout and spy. In fact, Harriet Tubman was probably America’s first psychic spy when she guided the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than 700 slaves in South Carolina.

Can’t wait to see her on the $10 bill!