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For the rest of her life, she suffered headaches, nausea and seizures as a result of the trauma from that assault.
Born in Eastern Maryland sometime between 1820 and 1825, Harriet Tubman looked forward to a life that was gravely limited by virtue of her status as a slave. During her younger years, she suffered a terrible head injury when her master clubbed her for refusing to help arrest a fellow slave who had left his plantation without permission. For the rest of her life, she suffered headaches, nausea and seizures as a result of the trauma from that assault. Her illness eventually reduced her value as a slave, and in 1849 her master, Edward Brodess, attempted to sell her; when he died that year, his widow resumed the search for a buyer. Fearful that she would be sold and shipped far away from her family, Harriet Tubman reached a state of near despair.
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