Season 1 · Episode 15
100 min · 1863
The Combahee
June 2, 1863. Three Union gunboats. She was the scout.
Logline
Tubman leads Union gunboats up the Combahee and frees 750 in a single night.
What the episode covers
- Tubman's intelligence network in Beaufort — Gullah pilots, Black watermen, mapped rice-country channels.
- The raid, June 2, 1863 — three gunboats up the Combahee, 750 self-liberated, plantations burned.
- The first woman to lead an armed expedition in U.S. military history. She fought for her pension for 30 years.
Production notes
Community-attributed traditional music only, no post-1928 material. All primary sources public domain (Library of Congress, National Archives, community archives) or community-controlled oral history. Screenplay filed with U.S. Copyright Office as part of the Gullah Geechee Biz Season 1 deposit.
Attribution
Written & Directed by Darryl Elliott Brown
Produced by Darryl Elliott Brown
A Gullah Geechee Biz Production
© 2026 Darryl Elliott Brown
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