Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Highlight

Many of those people were disabled, whether by birth or at the cruel hands of enslavers and overseers. Harriet Tubman, a revered leader who led dozens of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad, had a seizure disorder and would periodically fall into “spells” as a result of brain damage sustained from being struck in the head with a two-pound weight as a child.