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Archival Data Profile
- Page Count 776
- Publication Year 2024
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- ISBN-13 9780197552797
Combee
Archival Summary & Scope
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History & 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. A Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist Top Ten History Book of 2024.Historian Edda L. Fields-Black, a descendant of a participant, unearths the untold story of Harriet Tubman's pivotal role in the Civil War's Combahee River Raid. Beyond her famed Underground Railroad exploits, this groundbreaking work, based on previously unexamined documents, reveals Tubman as a Union Army spy, scout, and tactical leader. On June 2, 1863, she piloted Black Union soldiers up South Carolina's Combahee River, leading an audacious raid that torched Confederate plantations and liberated 730 enslaved people. Many of these freed men joined the fight, and their collective journey contributed significantly to the distinctive Gullah Geechee culture and identity, solidifying Tubman's legacy as a brilliant military strategist and liberator.
Archival Categorization Notes
This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of American Civil War. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Leadership, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.
