Combahee Raid Exhibit Elements

-Projection of Combahee River on floor (satellite and map) becomes both timeline and geographic orientation.

-photographs:
•Beautiful images of the Combahee River
•Current day images of relevant places and structures
-slave cabins
-moon over River
-rice fields
•Portraits of key descendants

-video:
•flight up river for floor projection
•drone river shots various purposes
•reenactment of essential moments of the raid
•recreations of illustrative videos of life under slavery (slave dwelling project)
•first-person account Minus Hamilton recreated by professional actor
•first-person account William Heyward recreated by professional actor
•first-person account Joshua Nicholls recreated by professional actor
•interviews with descendants of enslaved people who were freed in the raid & fought in the raid
•interviews with descendants of Harriet Tubman discussing family lore passed down about their ancestors

-audio:
•Composed music for each video vignette and exhibit narration
•narration of the story from start to finish. This audio will be used in pieces through the exhibit, and then made available as an online audio-visual of the exhibit
•audio of steam boat
•audio of soldiers
•audio of field workers

-artifacts. Is there some way to catalog what the Gibbes has in its collection that might be relevant?
-Art from the Gibbes collection
Nathaniel Heyward
Charles Heyward
Dr William L Kirkland, sr

-Art from other institutions
Charles White art?
photo of Tubman at Smithsonian by Benjamin F. Powelson
Harriet Tubman by William H. Johnson -Smithsonian American Art Museum
Harriet Tubman series by Jacob Lawrence -Hampton U Museum VA
Harriet Tubman artifacts -Smithsonian
We Shall Pass Through The Combahee by Stephen Towns -Baltimore Museum of Art
Xanthus Smith depicting the Battle of Port Royal -Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Savannah
Charles C Lowndes -Wachovia Bank Charleston
William L Kirkland Jr -South Caroliniana
William Mason Smith -South Caroliniana
Mrs William Mason Smith -South Caroliniana
Judge Thomas Jefferson Withers -South Caroliniana
Oliver Herring Middleton Sr -Middleton
Oliver Herring Middleton Jr -Middleton
Williams Middleton -Middleton
James Montgomery portrait
General David Hunter portrait
picture of rice barge from Porcher
Elements from Slave Trade Exhibit

-Maps and Charts
•Travis Folk maps
•Historic maps and plats
•Nautical charts
•Animated map of progress and important sites