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Criminal

High Tide

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Right after sunset, three boats sailed towards the rice plantations on the Combahee River. Harriet Tubman knew they had to hurry - they only had six hours before the changing tide would make it very difficult to get away. Edda L. Fields-Black's book is "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War." Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Start a business that sells decorative plates.

0:03.0

Find out you have to track expenses.

0:05.0

Use Intuit QuickBooks to auto-track expenses, so you can keep spinning, selling those plates.

0:10.6

Manage and grow your business all in one place.

0:12.9

Intuit QuickBooks, your way to money.

0:16.1

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0:18.9

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0:42.5

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0:48.6

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0:52.2

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0:54.9

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1:04.3

It was 4 a.m. and the people were in the rice fields.

1:09.6

The people working in the rice fields on that day in 1863 were enslaved.

1:15.5

They were working on one of several rice plantations on the Cumbie River in South Carolina.

1:21.6

One of the men working in the field, minus Hamilton, later described that morning. And he says that from the slave cabins, they walked about a mile in the darkness when they could not see

1:29.8

their hands in front of their faces. And there were plenty of copperheads and water moccasins,

1:37.3

you know, that they could have stepped on, into the rice field, stood ankle-deep in muck.

1:45.4

The official term is pluff mud, i.e. muck, and hoeing rice, you know, with their back

1:51.9

bent at about a 45-degree angle with long-handled hose and hoeing rice for hours.

2:00.3

Edda Elfields Black is a historian and professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

2:06.4

Minus Hamilton lived with his wife Hager, and some of their adult children were enslaved on

2:11.9

the same plantation. In 1863, Minus Hamilton told someone that he was 88 years old.

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