Juneteenth – Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day. The free day of Juneteenth marked on June 19th 1980, and every year, many people celebrate a Freedom Day – June 19th. Unfortunately not to everyone who knows or never learnt about slavery, black people, even black people with disabilities.

The very first time that caused to happen in America, the first twenty enslaved African came to American colonies – Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 as a Forced Immigration. The other eleven African slaves landed in New Netherlands (New York) in 1626 by the Dutch West India Company – The Dutch Colony. Yes, there was the earliest slavey before 1619, the first Indigenous enslavements in 1492 with Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon in 1508 and Ponce de Leon established the settlement in San Juan, and they began enslaving the indigenous Tainos until the population of Tainos dwindling back in 1513. The next stage was the first enslaved people imported to Puerto Rico. Another Spanish explorer Luca Vázquez de Ayllón bought the slaves near Winyah Bay, South Carolina but the colony was abandoned after have a widespread epidemic that killed everyone. From 1565, there had been extensive hubs of importing slaves from Africa to Spanish colonial Florida, America.

In 1752, there was a Protection for Slaves with disabilities in Maryland (Newfoundland), and Avalon (Labrador) enact laws that protect slaves with disabilities and elderly people.

When I studied one of the History papers at University of Waikato, I decided to look up if there were any slaves with disabilities, people with disabilities during the Civil Wars and the lives of these people with disabilities in the past. I was surprised to learn about them and decided to further research more information at the library.

Harriet Tubman and her life in America, I choose to write about her.

In 1833, it was the time of Liberator of Slaves.

Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. She was known for freeing slaves during the Civil Wars. Yes, she got multiple disabilities in her life. See quote here.

Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave, but hitting her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersommia ,which occurred throughout her life. After her injury, Tubman began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. These experiences, combined with her Methodist upbringing, led her to become devoutly religious.  Harriet Tubman