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    Young Harriet

    Feb 01, 2022 3 minutes
    by Mark Clemens

    Benjamin Ross and Harriet “Rit” Green were enslaved people. So when their daughter Araminta was born around 1822, she also was enslaved. People called Araminta “Minty” for short. It was only later, when Minty took her mother’s first name and her husband’s last name that she became known as Harriet Tubman.

    Harriet was the fifth of nine Ross children. Around the time that Harriet was born, Rit and her children came under the control  of Edward Brodess. Brodess had

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