Smithsonian Associates
HARRIET TUBMAN, UNION SPY
Virtual  | Thursday, February 29  |  6:45 - 8 pm

Hired by the Union Army during the Civil War, Harriet Tubman 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. Historian Edda L. Fields-Black—a descendent of one of the soldiers in the June 1863 action that liberated 756 enslaved people—traces the raid’s planning, participants, execution, and aftermath.

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