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*EvilSoundsDeep: Bigger has a deep, somewhat intimidating voice.



* GutturalGrowler: Bigger has a deep, somewhat intimidating voice.
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* BadBoss: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Gideon Brodess]] is just as terrible to his employees as he is to his family's slaves, especially if they are freed blacks. He threatens to kill Walter for asking a fee for his service and then treats him like when dirt when Walter "loses" track of Harriet. Even Bigger Long, [[BaitTheDog the only black person that Gideon seems to treat as an equal]], is shot in the back by Gideon without hesitation or regret.

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* BadBoss: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Gideon Brodess]] is just as terrible to his employees as he is to his family's slaves, especially if they are freed blacks. He threatens to kill Walter for asking a fee for his service and then treats him like when dirt when Walter "loses" track of Harriet. Even Bigger Long, [[BaitTheDog the only black person that Gideon seems to treat as an equal]], is shot in the back by Gideon without hesitation or regret.

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* ActionGirl: Harriet. She frees herself despite all the dangers, then hundreds of others, with great skill. During her missions, she's armed with a pistol, though never kills anyone. In her greatest mission, Harriet leads a detachment of Black union soldiers to free around seven hundred people at once.



* SlaveLiberation: Tubman first frees herself by escaping, then goes back to rescue many others, including her parents, while more abolitionists are seen who also did this. The most prominent example is when the leads a massive raid by Black Union soldiers to rescue more than ''700'' slaves in South Carolina amid the American Civil War.

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* SlaveLiberation: Tubman first frees herself by escaping, then goes back to rescue many others, including her parents, while more abolitionists are seen who also did this. The most prominent example is when the she leads a massive raid by Black Union soldiers to rescue more than ''700'' slaves in South Carolina amid the American Civil War.



** In the climax, one of the runaway slaves is biracial and can pass for her father's son. She dresses as a man, lowers her voice, and keeps her nerves while talking at a checkpoint. It fools the men, but not Gideon who knows that the man in question has only daughters.

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** In the climax, one of the runaway slaves is biracial and can pass for her father's son. She dresses as a man, lowers her voice, and keeps her nerves while talking at a checkpoint. It fools the other men, but though not Gideon who knows that the man in question has only daughters.

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