This week we're traveling back to the 19th-century American South with Harriet! Join us for a discussion of the Combahee River Raid, Reverend Samuel Green, Harriet Tubman's visions, and more!

Sources:

Combahee River Raid:

Zinn Education Project "June 2, 1863: harriet Tubman Frees Nearly 800 People" https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/harriet-tubman-raid-at-combahee-ferry/ "The Raid" Uncivil Podcast https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/uncivil?selected=GLT6754684783 "Harriet Tubman's Role in Montgomery's Raids," Florida History Online, UNF. https://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline/montgomery/tubman.html DeNeen L. Brown, "Renowned as a Black liberator, Harriet Tubman was also a brilliant spy," The Washington Post (12 February 2021). https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/08/harriet-tubman-spy-civil-war-union/

Harriet's Spells:

Catherine Clinton, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Janell Hobson, "Of "Sound" and "Unsound" Body and Mind: Reconfiguring the Heroic Portrait of Harriet Tubman," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 40, no. 2 (2019): 193-218.

Black Jacks:

W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).

Film Background:

Interview with Kasi Lemmons on Harriet, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775148791/the-superhero-journey-of-harriet-tubman-now-on-film "Harriet," Wikipedia, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman Catherine Shoard, "No One Will Know the Difference: Studio Wanted Julia Roberts to Play Harriet Tubman," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/20/studio-wanted-julia-roberts-to-play-harriet-tubman-cynthia-erivo "The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!" Fanti, available at https://maximumfun.org/episodes/fanti/the-british-are-coming-the-british-are-coming/

Marriages:

Kahlil Chism, "Harriet Tubman: Spy, Veteran, and Widow," OAH Magazine of History 19, 2 (2005)Patrick W. O'Neil, "Bosses and Broomsticks: Ritual and Authority in Antebellum Slave Weddings," Journal of Southern History 75, 1 (2009) Terri L. Snyder, "Marriage on the Margins: Free Wives, Enslaved Husbands, and Law in Early Virginia," Law and History Review 30, 1 (2012)

Reverend Samuel Green:

Albert Blondo, "Samuel Green: A Black Life in Antebellum Maryland," MA Thesis. Available at https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2208/pdf/blondo.pdf