On the night of June 1, 1862, three steamships entered the Combahee River from St. Helena Sound. Aboard were 300 soldiers of the 2nd South Carolina. These were not men in Confederate gray, but Union ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

GREEN POND, S.C. (WCSC) - A new rice festival highlighting the historical Combahee River freedom seekers is taking place this weekend in the rural community of Green Pond in Colleton County. The 2026 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 274-year-old plantation along the Combahee River in Beaufort County with ties to Robert E. Lee and Frank Lloyd Wright recently ...

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: ...

Before the group launched their kayaks into the Combahee River, Adrienne Troy-Frazier called everyone to stand in a circle. She asked that they all pass and smell the warm scent of a sweetgrass braid ...

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. By Edda L. Fields-Black. Oxford University Press. 776 pages. $39.99. In an important 1982 essay, Cornell ...

Historians can agree on that. But whatever else the future face of America’s $20 bill did in South Carolina’s Lowcountry during the Civil War is less certain. “The term I tend to use for her activity ...

A 274-year-old plantation along the Combahee River in Beaufort County with ties to Robert E. Lee and Frank Lloyd Wright recently sold for $9 million. The 1,851-acre Old Combahee Plantation had been on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edda Fields-Black gives a keynote speech for Juneteenth at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. (Provided/Carnegie Mellon ...