“COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” by Edda Fields-Black

September 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment

It was Edda Fields-Black’s Op Ed in the NYTimes that led me to COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (Oxford University Press 2024). In the editorial, she describes how the newly digitized US Civil War Pension Files made it possible for African Americans to find information on their […]

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Geri Lipschultz Interviews Edda Fields-Black, author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War””

September 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Introduction Geri Lipschultz interviewed Edda Fields-Black for Southern Literary Review. Dr. Fields-Black is the author of Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War, which Booklist named as one of the Top Ten History Books of 2024. The book tells the story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet […]

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