COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Fields-Black, Edda L.

ISBN 10: 019755279X / ISBN 13: 9780197552797

Published by Oxford University Press (edition ), 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019755279X
• ISBN 13: 9780197552797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

COMBEE is based upon original research and offers the first full account of Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. In the process, it also offers the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, and does so using their own distinct and individual voices.

About the Author

Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University and has written extensively about the history of West African rice farmers, including in such works as Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. She was a co-editor of Rice: Global Networks and New Histories, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Fields-Black has served as a consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture's permanent exhibit, "Rice Fields of the Lowcountry." She is the executive producer and librettist of "Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice," a widely performed original contemporary classical work by celebrated composer John Wineglass.

Fields-Black is a descendent of Africans enslaved on rice plantations in Colleton County, South Carolina; her great-great-great grandfather fought in the Combahee River Raid in June 1863. Her determination to illuminate the riches of the Gullah dialect, and to reclaim Gullah Geechee history and culture, has taken her to the rice fields of South Carolina and Georgia to those of Sierra Leone and Republic of Guinea in West Africa.