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

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, February 09, 2024Description: 742 pages illustrations, maps 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
  • Any audience
ISBN:
  • 9780197552797
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: CombeeDDC classification:
  • 973.7/34 23/eng/20230928
LOC classification:
  • E473.9 .F54 2024
Contents:
Last captives -- Old heads -- Stolen children -- Prime hands -- Freedom seekers -- Pikins -- John Brown's "men" -- "Gun shoot at Bay Point" -- Broken promises -- Beaufort's boatmen -- Two of us -- Forever free -- "A pleasure excursion" -- Day clean -- "Some credit" -- "Great sufferers" -- Reaping dead men -- Charleston siege -- Closed his eyes.
Summary: "This book offers the first full account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. It details how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. It also recounts the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, using their own distinct and individual voices. The book uses more than 175 US Civil War pension files of the regiments of Second South Carolina Volunteers, including Tubman's. It is based on original documentation and written by a descendent of the enslaved men and women who fought in it, and in the process liberated themselves"--. Provided by publisher.
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Books Idaho Springs Public Library ANF 973.7 FIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100320959

new book 2025 summer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Last captives -- Old heads -- Stolen children -- Prime hands -- Freedom seekers -- Pikins -- John Brown's "men" -- "Gun shoot at Bay Point" -- Broken promises -- Beaufort's boatmen -- Two of us -- Forever free -- "A pleasure excursion" -- Day clean -- "Some credit" -- "Great sufferers" -- Reaping dead men -- Charleston siege -- Closed his eyes.

"This book offers the first full account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. It details how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. It also recounts the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, using their own distinct and individual voices. The book uses more than 175 US Civil War pension files of the regiments of Second South Carolina Volunteers, including Tubman's. It is based on original documentation and written by a descendent of the enslaved men and women who fought in it, and in the process liberated themselves"--. Provided by publisher.

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