The long-lost cabin belonged to Tubman s father.
April 21, 2021
Harriet Tubman (ca. 1860–75). Photo courtesy of Harvey B. Lindsley, courtesy of the Library of Congress
Maryland archaeologists have finally found the one-time home of the great abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
The homestead was found in Peter’s Neck, a new addition to the state’s Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, purchased last year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Tubman’s parents, Ben Ross and Harriet Green, were married in 1808. Land records showed that Ross was set free and given 10 acres of land in Maryland nicknamed “Ben’s 10″ in his owner’s will. Ross brought his still-enslaved family to live with him, and Tubman is believed to have called the cabin home from 1839 to 1844.
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But Green, who has lived in the region for decades, has noticed something changing on those historic sites as the years have passed. The water, he said, “is coming closer and closer.”
Green is well aware that rising seas are affecting communities like his. The seas are rising faster along the mid-Atlantic than in most parts of the world, with the sinking of land from natural forces conspiring with sea level rise from climate-changing pollution to push coastlines inland.