Harriet

<p>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!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Combahee River Raid:</p> <p>Zinn Education Project "June 2, 1863: harriet Tubman Frees Nearly 800 People" https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/harriet-tubman-raid-at-combahee-ferry/<br /> "The Raid" Uncivil Podcast https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/uncivil?selected=GLT6754684783<br /> "Harriet Tubman's Role in Montgomery's Raids," Florida History Online, UNF. https://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline/montgomery/tubman.html<br /> DeNeen L. Brown, "Renowned as a Black liberator, Harriet Tubman was also a brilliant spy," The Washington Post (12 February 2021). <a href= "https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/08/harriet-tubman-spy-civil-war-union/"> https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/08/harriet-tubman-spy-civil-war-union/</a></p> <p>Harriet's Spells:</p> <p>Catherine Clinton, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom<br /> 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.</p> <p>Black Jacks:</p> <p>W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).</p> <p>Film Background:</p> <p>Interview with Kasi Lemmons on Harriet, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775148791/the-superhero-journey-of-harriet-tubman-now-on-film<br /> "Harriet," Wikipedia, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman<br /> 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<br /> "The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!" Fanti, available at <a href= "https://maximumfun.org/episodes/fanti/the-british-are-coming-th