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(Edward) Brodess Farm
Location: Bucktown, Dorchester Co., MD
Founded: 1820 - 1824
History:
Harriet Tubman
The Edward Brodess Farm was the home of one of America's most famous heroes,
Harriet Tubman. Read more about Harriet Tubman at Bound for the Promised
Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero, http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com
Associated Surnames: Brodess, Keene, Ross, Tubman
Associated Plantations: (Anthony) Thompson Plantation (Dorchester Co., MD)
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Associated Black Slave Names
Slaves of Edward Brodess
From submission by Kate Clifford Larson
- Frederick
- Dawes Keene: owned by Eliza Ann Keen Brodess
- Rit Green Ross
- hus. Ben Ross: owned by Anthony Thompson; see Anthony Thompson Plantation
- dau. Linah Ross
- dau. Mariah Ross
- dau. Ritty Ross
- dau. Soph Ross
- son Robert Ross
- dau. Harriet Ross Tubman: b. 1822
- son Ben Ross
- dau. Rachel Ross
- son Henry Ross
- son Moses Ross
- Sam
- Shadach
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