Araminta Ross

Araminta Ross, later named Harriet Tubman, was born into slavery circa 1820. She was raised under harsh slave conditions in Dorchester County, Maryland; she was subjected to whippings even as a small child. When Harriet was twelve years old, a white overseer struck her in the head with a weight. Harriet would suffer lifelong blackouts from that injury and, like most slaves, was motivated to escape for freedom. While still enslaved in Maryland, Harriet married a free black man named John Tubman. Although marriage did not change her

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