Harriet Tubman on the Banks of the Choptank River - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Harriet Tubman on the Banks of the Choptank River - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Harriet Tubman on the Banks of the Choptank River in Caroline County Maryland.    This is the route she followed along the Choptank River in Caroline County.   It was not so green when she lead People to freedom she always traveled in winter, to avoid capture from Slave masters.  Tubman told the tale of one journey with a group of fugitive slaves, when morale sank and one man insisted he was going to go back to the plantation. She pointed the gun at his head and said, "You go on or die."  Several days later, he was with the group as they entered Canada.

This is a photoshoped the 360 I portray Harriet Tubman in.

Harriet Tubman on the Banks of the Choptank River - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland

On the Banks of the Choptank River - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

On the Banks of the Choptank River - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland>

Harriet Tubman on the Banks of the Choptank River in Caroline County Maryland.    This is the route she followed along the Choptank River in Caroline County.   It was not so green when she lead People to freedom she always travel in winter, to avoid capture from Slave masters.  Tubman told the tale of one journey with a group of fugitive slaves, when morale sank and one man insisted he was going to go back to the plantation. She pointed the gun at his head and said, "You go on or die."  Several days later, he was with the group as they entered Canada.

On the Banks of the Choptank River - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland

Stanley Institute - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Stanley Institute - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Stanley Institute, also known as Rock School, is a historic African American school building located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland built about 1865. Three original blackboards still occupy their proper locations The building was moved to its present location from a site near Church Creek in 1867. It served as both a church and a school until the erection of the present Rock Methodist Church later in the 19th century. The building is referred to as Rock Elementary or as the Stanley Institute in honor of the first president of the school board, Ezekrial Stanley. Rock Elementary School is significant for the role it played in the education of the African-American children of Cambridge from the mid-nineteenth century until it closed on July 15, 1966.

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Stanley Institute - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland

Church Creek - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Church Creek - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Ben Ross worked for a ship Builder here in the waterfront town of Church Creek it was a major shipbuilding center during Harriet Tubman’s time. Ben Ross, Harriet’s father, worked in the surrounding woods identifying the best trees for shipbuilding. During Tubman’s lifetime, scores of enslaved people fled from farms and shipyards in this area. Harriet Tubman and her father lived and worked nearby.  Eventually Timber became scarce in the area the ship building has long gone.

Church Creek - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland

Woolford Harrisville Road - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Woolford Harrisville Road - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Woolford Harrisville Road Woolford Mace Cemetery Harriet Tubman was probably born nearby on Anthony Thompson’s plantation in 1822. Her father, Ben Ross, was a skilled timber foreman, married to Rit Green, who belonged to Thompson’s young stepson, Edward Brodess. Sometime after Brodessa reached adulthood, he moved Green and five of her children, including baby Araminta (Harriet Tubman) to his farm in Bucktown, but by 1840 Green was back living on Thompson’s farm (currently privately owned), where she and Ross remained until 1847. A large community of enslaved and free black families lived and worked between Harrisville and Whitemarsh Roads, creating an important social world for Tubman and her family.

Woolford Harrisville Road - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland

Sandtown Rd. Choptank River - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Sandtown Delaware - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Harriet Tubman crossed over the Maryland Delaware border in to Sandtown Delaware on the Choptank River after following it from her birth home in Dorchester County Md. on her way North to freedom.  Sandtown Delaware is located on the border between Maryland and Delaware in Delaware. Freedom seekers reaching Sandtown still risked recapture, but they were well on their way to freedom.  Until the fugitive Slave Act People were free once they crossed in to Delaware. This is also the Mason Dixon Line between Maryland and Delaware.

Sandtown Rd. Choptank River - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland

Sandtown Delaware - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Sandtown Rd. Choptank River - Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore of Maryland

Harriet Tubman sought refuge here on her way north here in Sandtown.  An Important safe house stop on her way north.   Sandtown Delaware is located on the border between Maryland and Delaware in Delaware. Freedom seekers reaching Sandtown still risked recapture, but they were well on their way to freedom.  Until the fugitive Slave Act People were free once they crossed in to Delaware. 

Sandtown Delaware - Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore of Maryland