Combahee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Some items, like a statement from the Combahee River Collective, show how abortion has been seen as a means of autonomy and liberty for Black women, who have sometimes rejected the rhetoric of “choice” in favor of calls for “reproductive justice.”
From New York Times
In South Carolina, Tubman went behind enemy lines dressed as an enslaved person to gather intelligence from enslaved people about the locations of Confederate torpedoes on the Combahee River.
From Washington Post
The Combahee River Raid has earned Tubman spots in the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame and the International Spy Museum, though Byer pointed out that since she wasn’t stealing secrets and giving them to foreign intelligence, she wasn’t a “spy” in the strictest sense, but an “intelligence collector.”
From Washington Post
The 2019 film “Harriet,” for instance, ends with the “Moses of Her People” leading Union soldiers in the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina, a military operation that liberated more than 700 enslaved people.
From Washington Post
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
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