Combee : Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black freedom during the Civil War / Edda L. Fields-Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields-Black, Edda L., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.

Tubman, Harriet.

United States. Army. South Carolina Volunteers, 2nd (1863-1864).

United States.

Combahee River Raid, 1863.

Freed persons--South Carolina--History--19th century.

Freed persons.

Raids (Military science)--History--19th century.

Raids (Military science).

South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

South Carolina.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Female.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

Combahee River (S.C.)--History, Military--19th century.

Combahee River (S.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ()xxxii, 742 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plate) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change. Yet the many biographies, children's books, and films about Tubman omit a crucial chapter; during the Civil War, hired by the Union Army, she ventured into the heart of slave territory - Beaufort, South Carolina - to live, work, and gather intelligence for a daring raid up the Combahee River to attack the major plantations of Rice Country, the breadbasket of the Confederacy. Edda L. Fields - Black - herself a descendent of one of the participants in the raid - shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines.

Contents:

Timeline

A Note on Names

Foreword

Part One "The Prison-​House of Bondage"

1. Last Captives

2. Old Heads

3. Stolen Children

4. Prime Hands

5. Freedom Seekers

6. Pikins

7. John Brown's "Men"

Part Two The Proving Ground of Freedom

8. "Gun Shoot at Bay Point"

9. Broken Promises

10. Beaufort's Boatmen

11. Two of Us

12. Forever Free

Part Three The Combahee River Raid

13. "A Pleasure Excursion"

14. Day Clean

15. "Some Credit"

16. "Great Sufferers"

Part Four "We's Combee!"

17. Reaping Dead Men

18. Charleston Siege

19. Closed His Eyes

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Appendixes

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 4, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Fields-Black, Edda L. Combee

ISBN:

0-19-755282-X

0-19-755280-3

0-19-755281-1

OCLC:

1410463481