Bluff Plantation once encompassed 7,400 acres along this stretch of the Combahee River near Yemassee. Before the Colonial period, this area was home to Native Americans who settled in this sweet ...
They called themselves the Combahee River Collective, taking their name from Harriet Tubman’s 1863 raid along the Combahee River, which freed over 750 people. “We started out like a lot of the ...
As clouds flitted across the moonlit sky on the night of June 2, 1863, three gunboats snaked up the Combahee River in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region. The Civil War was raging and the vessels ...