By Rona Kobell

At EJJI, we say all the time that environmental justice is not just about keeping undesirable elements out of communities. It is about protecting what you have. Often, in Black communities, that is the history that residents hold dear. It could be churches, cemeteries, memorials, monuments, or a special piece of the shoreline.

In Dorchester County, those endangered places are often the sites connected to Harriet Tubman, the great liberator who lived and spent much of her time in the areas around Bucktown, Peter’s Neck, Madison, and Harrisonville. It is in Peter’s Neck where archaeologists first found her father’s cabin two years ago. They have been digging deeper to see if they can find more artifacts to learn more about what else happened at the cabin, but because of climate change, they will have to stop digging soon.

You can read all about this issue in the Baltimore Banner here.

You can read more about the places associated with Tubman here.

And you can see me on TV talking about these issues here. I did a segment for WJZ, and it ended up making national news. Now everyone in America can see my husband’s CD collection.