Harriet Tubman's Hypersomnia: Insights from Historical and Medical Perspectives.
Journal of General Internal Medicine December 1, 2023 Evan A Balmuth, Thomas E Scammell
Harriet Tubman, a hero of the abolitionist movement and early civil rights advocate, suffered a head injury in childhood and subsequently developed sleep attacks associated with visions that were extensively documented in historical accounts. Her contemporaries perceived these visions together with unpredictable and unavoidable urges to sleep as manifestations of her deep faith, rather than as...