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

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197552810,0197552811

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019755279X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197552797
• Author(s): Edda L. Fields-Black

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.

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Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman’s legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change. Yet the many biographies, children’s books, and films about Tubman omit a crucial chapter: during the Civil War, hired by the Union Army, she ventured into the heart of slave territory–Beaufort, South Carolina–to live, work, and gather intelligence for a daring raid up the Combahee River to attack the major plantations of Rice Country, the breadbasket of the Confederacy

Table contents:

Part One “The Prison-House of Bondage”
1. Last Captives
2. Old Heads
3. Stolen Children
4. Prime Hands
5. Freedom Seekers
6. Pikins
7. John Brown’s “Men”
Part Two The Proving Ground of Freedom
8. “Gun Shoot at Bay Point”
9. Broken Promises
10. Beaufort’s Boatmen
11. Two of Us
12. Forever Free
Part Three The Combahee River Raid
13. “A Pleasure Excursion”
14. Day Clean
15. “Some Credit”
16. “Great Sufferers”
Part Four “We’s Combee!”
17. Reaping Dead Men
18. Charleston Siege
19. Closed His Eyes
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Appendixes
Notes
Index

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