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A photograph of Harriet Tubman taken by Harvey B. Lindsley in the 1870s. Collection of the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division // No Known Restrictions on Publication Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bought 2600 acres of land to add to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. While the main goal was to give wildlife some higher ground to inhabit as other areas succumb to rising water levels, that particular ground had historical significance, too. Some of the land, now known as Peter’s Neck, used to be the plantation of Anthony Thompson, the man who enslaved Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben Ross. In his will, Thompson granted Ross two things: freedom, and 10 acres of land from the plantation. Ross built a cabin on the property in the 1840s, and it was there that Tubman born Araminta Ross honed the wilderness skills that would help her during her years as an Undergro

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