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Harriet Tubman Harriet Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. Her parents were from the Ashanti tribe of West Africa, and they worked as slaves on the Brodas plantation. In addition to producing lumber, difficult on the plantation and Harriet was hired out as a laborer at the age of five. Harriet did not like to work indoors, and she was routinely beaten by her masters. By her early teens, Harriet was not allowed to work indoors, and was hired to work as a field hand. She was a hard worker but considered defiant and rebellious. When she was 15 years old, Harriet tried to help a runaway slave. The overseer hit her in the head with a lead weight, which put Harriet in a coma. It took months for her to recover, and for the rest of her life, Harriet suffered from blackouts (“The Harriet Tubman Home” New York History.net) In 1844, Harriet married a free black man named John Tubman.
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