The site, on land recently added to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, includes ten acres that Tubman’s father, Ben Ross, was given when he was freed. What’s been discovered are the remains of Ross’s cabin, where he brought his wife (whose freedom he purchased) and sheltered Harriet, when she was aged 17 to 22, and several of her siblings who were still enslaved. – The Washington Post

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