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How a raid in SC freeing 700 slaves became a Pulitzer Prize-winning book

By Local Jun 19, 2025 | 2:55 PM

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcoun

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