Gideon does share the same last name as Edward Brodess, Harriet's former owner who died in March 1849. The character represents the many young people who grew up alongside the slaves owned by their parents. Gideon (Joe Alwyn), the young slave owner who is portrayed as having been a childhood companion of Tubman, is entirely fictional. Is Joe Alwyn's character, slave master Gideon Brodess, based on a real person? Her siblings fled with her but turned back out of cowardice. Her husband refused her invitation and decided instead to remain in Maryland. She invited her two brothers and her free husband, John Tubman, to flee to the North with her via the Underground Railroad. Did Harriet Tubman's two brothers retreat back to the plantation after escaping with her?
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