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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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March 30, 1849. At a secret location in Philadelphia, a box arrives, measuring 3 feet by 2 feet. Inside is fugitive slave Henry Brown.
Shipped from Richmond, Virginia, 27 hours earlier, he escaped with help from men on both sides of the racial divide.
CBN News met with Dr. Newby-Alexander in her office at Norfolk State University. You needed partners, you needed blacks and whites working jointly together to help people escape from slavery. People have seen the Underground Railroad as the first integrated resistance movement, she said.
The Underground Railroad
Anyone involved faced great risk. If caught, slaves were severely beaten and in some cases executed. Free blacks were sold into slavery.