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Analysis Of Araminta Ross A Woman Of Many Names

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A Woman of Many Names Araminta was the baby of a slave and, later, a slave herself. She was worked and abused. Araminta developed an internal and external independance when she became Harriet. Harriet was a chosen name, rather than that given to her by her owners. Harriet was only a slave and the wife of a free man for four years, after which she abandoned those titles, escaping from them of her own will. During the last years of her life she was titled, by Sarah Bradford, The Moses of Her People and it is though this title that she lives on. Araminta Ross was born sometime between 1819 and 1821 in Dorchester County on Maryland’s eastern coast. Being of pure African descent and the child of two slave plantation workers, Araminta

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