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Near
Tubman's probable birth site, Peter's Neck area, near Harrisville Road south of present day Madison in Dorchester County,
MD.
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Bucktown
Village Store interior. Though this building may not have been standing when Tubman suffered her terrible head injury at
the hands of an irate overseer, this location is the probable site of this life altering event. Bucktown, Maryland.
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Stewart's
Canal [Coursey's Creek], facing northeast. Completed during the early 1830s, this canal was built with the labor of enslaved
and free African Americans, including, possibly, members of Harriet Tubman's extended family. Dorchester County, Maryland.
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Marker
dedicated to Harriet Tubman's memory, located at the former Brodess Farm site, where Harriet Tubman spent portions of her
childhood enslaved by Edward Brodess. Near Bucktown, Dorchester County, Maryland.
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...As the only woman working in the forests on a timber
gang, Harriet Tubman became part of an exclusively male world. Here, beyond the watchful eye of white masters, Tubman's father
and others passed along the map of communication networks that were the provenance of black men.... These men communicated
with the black mariners whose ships carried the timber to the Baltimore shipyards.... They were part of a larger world, a
world beyond the plantation, beyond the woods, to towns and cities up and down the Chesapeake Bay, to Delaware, Pennsylvania,
and New Jersey. They knew the safe places, they knew the sympathetic whites, and, more importantly, they knew the danger.
They created an invisible world, a world parallel to the white master's world. A world necessarily unknown, veiled, and
secret. Tubman's unique ability to effectively use this complicated network, combined with well-practiced skills of disguise
and deception mastered through generations of enslavement, set her apart from other slave women and men in her community...
- from Bound for the Promised Land -
Copyright © Kate Clifford Larson
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The
Big Blackwater River, near Anthony Thompson's plantation, on a cold and rainy day in Dorchester County, Maryland.
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