The Book Prize Index

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Edda L. Fields-Black

Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History Winner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Publishers Weekly Starred Review Library Journal Starred Review Booklist Top Ten History Books of 2024 The story of 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. Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change.

HistoryAmerican History · medium confidenceAmerican History81 signalsLlm Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryTopic Classifier: Reconstruction -> American HistoryReconstructionAmerican Civil WarSlavery & Emancipation

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMajor2025Co-winnerOfficial source
Mark Lynton History Prize2025FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    • Harriet Tubman90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Combahee River60%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 70%.