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On this day, 2 June 1863, the Combahee River raid took place, with formerly enslaved and underground railroad activist Harriet Tubman leading 150 black Union soldiers. The only woman known to have led a military operation during the American civil war, it was a major success in which 750 enslaved people were freed and the estates of several wealthy secessionist landowners were looted and burned. Tubman has of course been in the news again recently, following the Trump administration deciding to push back featuring her on the $20 bill by several years until after Trump leaves office. She had been set to replace Andrew Jackson, the former president and vicious slave owner, who owned hundreds of enslaved people during his lifetime, whom he beat and whipped. Jackson also ordered the forced removal of large numbers of Native Americans, killing tens of thousands.
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