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Picturing Freedom: Opening May 23
You're invited to the opening of The Combahee Raid Story May 23 at the Gibbes. 
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Picturing Freedom
An exhibit about the Combahee Raid |
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On June 2, 1863, 1863, Harriet Tubman and her group of spies, scouts, and pilots guided 3 paddle-wheel steamboats with a regiment of 300 Black soldiers up the Combahee River, under the full moon, and freed 750 enslaved people from the rice fields there. |
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The South Carolina coast is the largest undeveloped coastal area in the continental United States.
Those rice fields, once treacherous cypress swamps that were cleared by hand for agriculture have now become precious coastal wetlands.
As the climate warms, and Florida's wetlands are cleared and filled, South Carolina's become even more precious.
This is part of the legacy left to us by those who worked here. |
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We are pleased to invite you to the opening, 23 May at 5pm
at the Gibbes Musuem, 135 Meeting St, in Charleston, South Carolina. |
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Ronald Daise- actor specializing in Gullah-Geechee dialect |
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The other part of the legacy is the people and the culture of the low country. The Combahee Raid is a uniquely Charleston story.
Part of the exhibit will be large video installations with an amazing re-enactment of a first person account of a man who was freed |
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The exhibit, developed in partnership with Professor Edda Fields-Black, Ph.D., winner of the Pulitzer Prize, sheds new light on the history of Harriet Tubman and the Civil War. |
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