DEI Whiners: Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighter Underground Railroad, Top Union Army Scout and Spy

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John Brown referred to her as General Tubman in the abolitionist movement. Nearly 800 slaves were freed on the Combahee Raid Mission. Unlike todays corporate media, it's funny how during the worst times during the civil war, the media newspapers reported the truth about things!

Combahee River Raid History: https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7381/1...16fa45cd_b.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends,[4] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

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She help free her people like Moses. At her death in 1913, she was buried with full military honors. Tubman even had a World War II Liberty ship named after her, the SS Harriet Tubman in 1944.

Liberty Ship SS Harriet Tubman: https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-co...16:9&width=800

https://www.history.com/topics/black...harriet-tubman

Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head. When Harriet was five years old, she was rented out as a nursemaid where she was whipped when the baby cried, leaving her with permanent emotional and physical scars. Harriet’s desire for justice became apparent at age 12 when she spotted an overseer about to throw a heavy weight at a fugitive. Harriet stepped between the enslaved person and the overseer—the weight struck her head. She later said about the incident, “The weight broke my skull … They carried me to the house all bleeding and fainting. I had no bed, no place to lie down on at all, and they laid me on the seat of the loom, and I stayed there all day and the next.”

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The first time in American history a woman oversaw combat operations. She outranks Presidents Trump, Biden, and Clinton who avoided the Vietnam draft. Harriet Tubman stood on business!

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The Soldier of Freedom (Not Greed) historical enactment.

The things she did even a lot of men wouldn't have the courage. Amazing historical woman in the worst time to be a female and black.

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Detailed description of Operation Liberate Slaves: Combahee Ferry Raid (The Real Rambo Mission By Harriet Tubman)

https://www.militarytimes.com/milita...litary-weapon/

By 3 a.m., the expedition had reached Fields Point, and Montgomery sent a squad ashore to drive off Confederate pickets, who withdrew but sent comrades to warn fellow troops at Chisholmville, 10 miles upriver. According to one Confederate onlooker, “[Tubman] passed safely the point where the torpedoes were placed and finally reached the … ferry, which they immediately commenced cutting way, landed to all appearances a group at Mr. Middleton’s and in a few minutes his buildings were in flames.”

Robbing warehouses and torching planter homes was an added bonus for the black troops, striking hard and deep at the proud master class. The horror of this attack on the prestigious Middleton estate drove the point home. Dixie might fall at the hands of their former slaves. The Confederates reportedly stopped only one lone slave from escaping — shooting her in flight.

Hard charging to the water’s edge, the Confederate commander could catch only a glimpse of escaping gunboats, pale in the morning light. In a fury, Confederate Major William P. Emmanuel pushed his men into pursuit — and got trapped between the riverbank and Union snipers.

The official Confederate report concluded: “The enemy seems to have been well posted as to the character and capacity of our troops and their small chance of encountering opposition, and to have been well guided by persons thoroughly acquainted with the river and country.”

After the Combahee River Raid, critics North and South could no longer pretend that blacks were unfit for military service, as this was a well-executed, spectacularly successful operation.