COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. By Edda L. Fields-Black. Oxford University Press. 776 pages. $39.99. In an important 1982 essay, Cornell ...
Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...
It took her years to research and write this book, a deep-dive into the circumstances of the Port Royal Experiment, Harriet Tubman’s experiences in South Carolina and, in particular, the ...