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2.20 Race to the Promised Land: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
Bunk
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This Bunk Connection features an excerpt from a graphic history (comic) about Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River raid.
Select the graphic history link and read about Tubman’s role as the first American woman to lead a major military operation. (To read the comic in its entirety, scroll to the bottom and select “View on The Nib.”)
Return to the original Bunk Connection. Examine the type of connection, Person, and the related tags below. What do you notice?
Now select and read the second excerpt in this connection, from a book on the same topic, Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River raid.
- How do these versions of the same event differ? How are they the same?
- Which format (graphic history/comic or text) did you prefer? Why?
- Did one format better help you understand the topic or engage you in the content more than the other?
Take some time to explore other content connected to both excerpts in Bunk.
- What other tags do you see if you change the CONNECTION TYPES from person to another category (Time, Place, Idea, etc)?
- How did exploring other connections increase your understanding of this topic?
Harriet Tubman’s Daring Civil War Raid. Abolishing slavery wasn’t enough. Someone had to actually free the enslaved people of the American south. Tristan J. Tarwater, Chelsea Saunders via The Nib on December 17, 2018
Harriet Tubman and the Second South Carolina Volunteers Bring Freedom to the Combahee River. The story of how Harriet Tubman led 150 African American soldiers to rescue over 700 former slaves freed five months earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation. Edda Fields-Black via History Uncut on June 19, 2024