irtualDate With History:Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid

Most Americans know Harriet Tubman as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. However, the many biographies and children’s books about Tubman, as well as the biopic “Harriet” are all virtually silent on her Civil War service when Tubman worked for the US Army Department of the South. Tubman was a commander of men in the Combahee River Raid, which freed 756 slaves and was one of the most successful US expeditions in the Civil War. This lecture will present the first original research about Harriet Tubman in more than 15 years and the first ever original research on Tubman’s Civil War service based on a deep reading of 160+ US Civil War Pension Files primarily from the regiments formed after the Raid. ‘Combee’: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and the Gullah Geechee Transformation tells the untold story of the Combahee River Raid from the perspective of Tubman and the enslaved people she helped to free.

Free event, but must REGISTER

Teachers can get credit for this - see Cantigny page