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Apr 20, 2021 · CNN —. Archaeologists working in a remote, marshy site on Maryland’s Eastern Shore say they’ve found the site of home where Ben Ross, the father of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, once...
Apr 22, 2021 · The Underground Railroad conductor’s father, Ben Ross, received the land where the cabin once stood in the early 1840s. Isis Davis-Marks. Correspondent. April 22, 2021. Harriet Tubman...
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Apr 20, 2021 · The former home site of Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben Ross, was confirmed found on land purchased for the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland's Eastern Shore, officials say.
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When Harriet's mother, Harriet “Rit” Green, married Ben Ross around 1808, the couple were enslaved on neighboring Maryland plantations: Green by the Brodess family and Ross by the Thompsons. In 1822, Green gave birth to the couple’s fourth daughter, Araminta (who would eventually change her name to Harriet). A few years after that, Thompson left or...
For a decade after Ben Ross inherited his land and his freedom, he continued to manage Thompson Farm’s timber harvest—with help from Araminta and her brothers, whom the Thompsons sometimes hired from the Brodess plantation. Young Araminta also found herself hired out to local landowners to check muskrat traps in the marshes. Her enslavers were more...
The Ross site not only helped shape Tubman’s future; it was part of the Underground Railroad in its own right. And as Wyatt pointed out, it could reveal often-hidden details about the lives of enslaved and formerly enslaved people in America. Last year, the site became part of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Maryland Coast. By 2100, ...
Although the Ross site fades from history in 1857, Tubman did the opposite. She worked with abolitionist John Brown to plan the Harper’s Ferry raidin 1859. When the Civil War began, Tubman became a scout and spy for the Union Army. She even led an armed raid that liberated 700 enslaved people in Combahee Ferry, South Carolina, in 1863. Tubman didn’...
Apr 22, 2021 · Archaeologists believe they have found the Maryland home of Ben Ross, the father of famous abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader, Harriet Tubman. Maryland's Lieutenant Governor Boyd K....
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Apr 20, 2021 · The homesite of Ben Ross was found on property acquired last year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an addition to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, officials said Tuesday. An...
Apr 20, 2021 · The site where Ben Ross once lived — dubbed Ben's 10 — was unearthed on property acquired last year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an addition to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge...
