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: ...
It’s the sort of story America loves telling about itself. A story promoting the idea of American exceptionalism. A daring midnight raid. A hero. Freedom prevailing over evil. ByChadd Scott, ...
BEAUFORT — In June 2024, Edda Fields-Black stood at Beaufort’s Tabernacle Baptist Church before the unveiling of a statue honoring Harriet Tubman and her role in the Combahee River raid, which Tubman ...
Edda Fields-Black, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” is herself a descendant of ...