Celebrating Black History Month — Part 1: Harriet Tubman & the Great Combahee Ferry Raid

Step Into History: Harriet Tubman’s Bold 1863 Combahee River Raid Comes Alive at the Gibbes this month | Charleston Magazine

Vivid Hues: The Combahee River Raid

🧬 The Melanation Project … Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman is usually taught like a feel-good side quest: “she helped some people escape, yay.” The real story is a disabled Black woman doing liberation and military work for a country that used her, underpaid her, and never gave her rank while she was alive. Born enslaved in Maryland, she escaped and still went back into slave territory again and again, making around 13 trips and leading dozens of people to freedom through the Underground Railroad