Carnegie-Mellon University history professor Dr. Edda Fields-Black shows how the Union Army, led by Harriet Tubman, freed 756 enslaved rice plantation workers in South Carolina in June 1863 – as told in her 2024 book, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War," winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History.
This talk is part of the East Liberty Valley Historical Society's lecture series.
No need to register in advance and the talk is free of charge (but please consider joining the membership to support this active series of talks)
