Combahee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She famously joined Colonel James Montgomery and his 2nd South Carolina Infantry during the group’s 1863 raid on Combahee River plantations, where Tubman provided scouting, nursing, and cooking aid.
From Fox News ● Feb. 6, 2022
Like Demita Frazier, co-founder of the pioneering Black feminist Combahee River Collective, I love Bey's sex-positivity, but am concerned that her fans see her extreme wealth and male-centric music as the "epitome" of feminism.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2021
She traces this definition to 1`970s women-of-color feminism, then called Third World feminism; notably, the Combahee River Collective, an organization of Black feminist lesbian women involved in early conversations about intersectionality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
The bold raid by Union soldiers along the Combahee River in South Carolina in 1863 was intended to punish slaveholding plantations and recruit for the Union’s Black regiments.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2020
As the gunboats went farther and farther up the Combahee, they began to see slaves working in the rice fields.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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