The Underground Abductor
An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman
by Nathan Hale
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appears in Civil War, History, and Fiction.
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the MasonDixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she?d be ...
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