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Newspaper image of a crowd of Black soldiers jumping into the river towards a ship with an American flag. In the background, smoke bellows.
Combahee River Raid pictured in Harper's Weekly (July 4, 1863).

Combahee River Raid.

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Combahee River Raid pictured in Harper's Weekly (July 4, 1863).

Harriet Tubman frees 750 enslaved African people in South Carolina in this unique military campaign that is one of the first in U.S. history to be conceived and directed by a Black woman.

What is less frequently known about Tubman is that she lived with a number of disabilities as the result of beatings and other forms of violence while she was enslaved.