In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to give the signal to the enslaved people hiding ashore. When the boats ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A new exhibition on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown Charleston honors work detailing Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid. The “Picturing Freedom: ...
In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...