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Ever since Harriet was a young girl she was working as a slave on a farm. One horrible day Harriet suffered a severe blow in the head from an iron weight thrown by her angry owner, the wieght would have hit one of the other slaves but she took the blow. Ever since she was hit she has been suffering from severe head aches, seizures and sleeping spells that stayed with her for the rest of her life. In the late 1830's and early 1840's she worled for a man named John T. Stewart. Since she was working for him she was closer to where her father lived. In 1844 she maried a local freeblack man named John Tubman. Leavng her childhood name "Minty" and was now the more mature Hariet. On March 7, 1849 Edward Brodess died on his farm leaving Harriet and her family in danger of being sold to settle Brodess's debts. Harriet died on March 10, 1913 and in Auburn, New York.

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