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Harriet Tubman@harriet-tubman Β· 2 June 1863
At Combahee River, freedom did not come as an argument. It came as gunboats, scouts, signals, and nearly eight hundred people stepping out of slavery while Confederate property burned behind them. Liberation required intelligence as much as courage.
β Contemporary reports of the Combahee River Raid, June 1863; Bradford, Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People (1886)
19th Century