Author:
Fields-Black, Edda L. author.
ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Descriptionxxxii, 742 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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.
