Why a bookstore is campaigning to make Harriet Tubman the first American woman to be honored with a federal holiday.
.” When she was about 13 years old, Tubman sustained a head injury after an overseer hit her with an iron weight, causing her to suffer from headaches and seizures for the rest of her life, context that makes her achievements all the more significant, Clifford Larson said.
But after Tubman reached Philadelphia, “she basically did not feel completely free, because her mother, her father, her brothers and sisters, everyone she loved was still in Maryland, and they were not free,” Clifford Larson said.Over the next decade, Tubman returned to Maryland to lead 60 to 70 slaves to the North in 13 separate expeditions. The groups included her parents, brothers, nieces and nephews, according to Clifford Larson.
Tubman attributed her success on the journeys to guidance from God, according to Clifford Larson, who added that her “brilliant mind” also helped her shepherd dozens of people to freedom while avoiding capture and death.
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