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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War 2024
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War is a 2024 book by American historian Edda L. Fields-Black published by Oxford University Press. Fields-Black tells the story of Harriet Tubman's involvement in the June 1–2, 1863, Combahee River Raid, a Union military operation that freed 756 enslaved people from rice plantations in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Fields-Black, descendant of a raid participant, uses over 175 U.S. Civil War pension files to explore the lives of those who were freed and to trace the development of Gullah Geechee culture. The book received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History, which it shared with Kathleen DuVal's Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, as well as the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize (2025), the Tom Watson Brown Book Award (2025), the George C. Rogers Jr. Award (2024), and the Marsha M. Greenlee History Award (2024).
Details
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Blackstone Audio
- ISBN
- 9780197552797
- Format
- Print (Hardcover), E-book, Audiobook
