An illustration of the Combahee River raid was published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
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Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has built a statue in her honor
In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to give the signal to the enslaved people hiding ashore.
