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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: Let's Learn about Harriet Tubman (c. 1820 -1913)! #HarrietTubman
Description: Araminta "Minty" Ross, who was later known as Harriet Tubman, was born enslaved around 1820. She died in 1913. As a child, Tubman suffered from the brutality and inhumanity of slavery. When she was five years old, she could not sleep during the night because she had to care for a baby. If the child cried, Harriet would be beaten. She was also forced to check muskrat traps in rivers, sometimes even in freezing weather. When she was a teen, a slave owner threw a weight at a man, but it hit Tubman in the head. The injury from this assault...