Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was born as a slave as Araminta Ross in 1820 in Dorcester County, Maryland. As a child Harriet was trying to save another slave from being pounded by a two pound weight. The other slave ran away and instead the weight hit Tubman. She said "broke my skull." On March 10, 1913 at age 93, Harriet Tubman died from pneumonia.