Program Type:
Informational TalkAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
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Join us for a very special book talk with Dr. Edda Fields-Black who discusses her award winning book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. Combee was awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
The book tells the story of the 1863 Combahee River Raid, one of Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents. Fields-Black herself a descendent of one of the participants in the raid–shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines.
Dr. Edda Fields-Black teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University and has written extensively about the history of West African rice farmers, including in such works as Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora.
Copies of her book will be available for sale and to sign at this event.
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