Aside from any moral argument, she was engaged in organized crime. She might have needed violence or threats to stay in business./////

Joe, you are a good man and you are even possibly right. But you may be talking about the moral imparitive of the time that drove these people to do extaordinary things.

Remember Halsey said that there are no great men, just ordinary folks who are forced by circumstances to rise to the occasion. Tubman may have been so danged scared doing what they were doing, she had to make sure all her charges were on the same page of the hymn book. Any traitor or weak sister might have killed the whole lot of them.

If she had been caught, don't think it wouldv'e gone down for her so well. IN short, it could've just been combat nerves or necessity or wahtever you want to call it.

If you read the essays of in country dutchmen and Germans who helped the Jews in WW2, you get the idea that they quickly became rather hard edged if they wanted to stay in business. I think TUbman may have felt similar pressures, being under similar circumstances.

That's just an opinion, never having been there obviously.