In 1862, Governor Andrew of Massachusetts arranged for Harriet Tubman to go to Beaufort, South Carolina, as a nurse and teacher to the Gullah people of the Sea Islands who had been left behind by their owners when they fled the advance of the Union Army, which remained in control of the islands. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Black Women in the Military
Harriet Tubman
Friday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Incident in Troy, New York In the spring of 1860, Harriet Tubman was requested by Mr. Gerrit Smith to go to Boston to attend a large Anti-Slavery meeting. On her way, she stopped at Troy to visit a cousin, and while there the colored people were one day startled with the intelligence that a fugitive slave, by the name of Charles Nalle, had been followed by his master (who was … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Thursday Evening Thread: Our Moses, Harriet Tubman
Thursday Open Thread: African-American Civil War Spies
GOOD MORNING PRAGOBOTS! Oh, yeah...Happy 4th of July We continue our series on African-American Civil War Spies... … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African-American Civil War Spies