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This Is a Love Letter to Edges
We asked image activist Michaela angela Davis to write a piece inspired by all that edges have done for Black women past, present, and future. By Michaela angela Davis Jun 9, 2021
Black hair is rain forest, lush and ancient like El Yunque¹. It’s an endless field of fluffy cotton blossoms nestled in prickly claws, rising out of wet, dark-red Georgia dirt. It’s the deep Mediterranean Sea with secret wild gardens growing up from the murky Egyptian floor. And like the Ogun² and Combahee³ Rivers, it is powerful and mysterious and can hold a hundred generations’ worth of secrets. And at its shorelines the ones that frame beautiful Black, brown, and beige faces
CBNNews.com Archaeologists Find Site of Harriet Tubman s Father s Home Where This Moses of the Underground Railroad Got Her Start
04-21-2021
In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Harriet Tubman in seen in a photograph dating from 1860-75. (Harvey B. Lindsley/Library of Congress via AP)
Archaeologists in Maryland say they believe they have found the home site of Ben Ross, the father of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
The site 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 archaeology team led by the State Highway Administration conducted the research that led to the find.
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New photography book sheds light on the experience of black Civil War soldiers in never-before-seen photos
Book explores the role of photography in telling the story of African Americans during the US Civil War
As well as soldiers, the photographs also celebrate African American surgeons and a war correspondent
Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the Civil War
Harriet Tubman: 8 Facts About the Daring Abolitionist
Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in the North in 1849 and then risked her life to lead other enslaved people to freedom.
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Her admirers called her “Moses” or “General Tubman,” but she was born Araminta Ross.
It’s unclear exactly when the woman who would be known as Harriet Tubman was born, with dates ranging from 1815 to 1822. Historians do know that she was one of nine children born to Harriet “Rit” and Ben Ross, enslaved people owned by two different families on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
With her parents separated, Tubman’s mother struggled to keep her family together, and three of Tubman’s sisters were sold to other plantation owners. Tubman’s owners, the Brodess family, “loaned” her out to work for others while she was still a child, under what were often miserable, dangerous conditions.