Imagine it for a moment. Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of her People” serving Col. Robert Gould Shaw his final meal on Morris Island before leading the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts in its ill-fated charge against Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863. The scene fits neatly in a narrative that places Shaw at the center of the stor…
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