Tubman’s childhood was cut short when she was hired out at age 5 to take care of an infant. This was her first job.
She had a scar on her head because in a store one day a man was chasing another slave and Harriet got in the way of the door. He threw a heavy iron weight at the slave but she got hit instead.
The primary way in which these nations built empires was through pure destruction. They would come into these small island nations and simply wipe out populations and take control of the government.
