Combee : Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and black freedom during the Civil War

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Combee : Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and black freedom during the Civil War

(2024)

By: Fields-Black, Edda L.

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

973.734/FIELDS-BLACK,E

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	973.734/FIELDS-BLACK,E	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
©2024

DESCRIPTION

xxxii, 742 pages, 72 unnumbered leaves of 116 plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles (some color) ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780197552797, 019755279X :, 019755279X, 9780197552797

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

"This book offers the first full account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. It details how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. It also recounts the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, using their own distinct and individual voices. The book uses more than 175 US Civil War pension files of the regiments of Second South Carolina Volunteers, including Tubman's. It is based on original documentation and written by a descendent of the enslaved men and women who fought in it, and in the process liberated themselves"--