Pittsburgh based radio station, 90.5 WESA, speaks with Edda L. Fields-Black. The author, historian, and professor at Carnegie Mellon University shares details about her new book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War”.
“Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” (Oxford University Press) tells the story of the Union Army’s June 1863 raid on Confederate territory in coastal South Carolina. The military action burned seven rice plantations, freed more than 750 people previously enslaved there, and possibly presaged a turning point in the war.
Tubman has long been recognized as a leader of the raid, making her the first woman to lead U.S. forces into battle. But drawing on previously overlooked sources like military-pension records, Fields-Black’s book documents Tubman’s crucial role in greater detail than ever before, even while highlighting the long-overlooked stories of the Black soldiers who carried out the raid, the people who escaped bondage, and even what happened to them all after the war.
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