The Lincolnville Preservation and Historical Society will host a book talk with author Dr. Edda Fields-Black on her book COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. The event will take place on Saturday, December 14, 2024. SC Humanities supported this program with a Major Grant.
Attendees are invited to come and learn about the story of the Combee people and 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. The program will also include presentations by the Mayor of Lincolnville, the National Park Service, and Reverend Kenneth Hodges, who was instrumental in the creation of the Harriet Tubman monument in Beaufort. The event will be free and open to the public.
Dr. Edda Fields-Black is a Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research specialty is the trans-national history of West African rice farmers, peasant farmers in pre-colonial Upper Guinea Coast and enslaved laborers on rice plantations in the antebellum South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. Throughout her career, Fields-Black has used interdisciplinary sources and methods to uncover the voices of historical actors in pre-colonial West Africa and the African Diaspora who did not author written
sources.
The program will take place on Saturday, December 14 from 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. at the Charles Ross Municipal Building (141 W. Broad Street, Lincolnville, SC). While the event is free, registration is strongly encouraged: https://www.lincolnvillesc.org/dec14.
The Lincolnville Preservation and Historical Society enriches and preserves the cultural heritage and intangible attributes of Lincolnville, one of the oldest African American towns in the State of South Carolina founded in 1867 and incorporated in 1889. Working together, we offer community development activities designed to improve the health, economic and social determinants of residents living today in Lincolnville. Learn more: https://www.lincolnvillesc.org/.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c)3 organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos, and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually. South Carolina Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as corporate, foundation and individual donors. The National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
