Edda L. Fields-Black
Biography of Edda L. Fields-Black
Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is an associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and a specialist in the history of the African diaspora. A Pulitzer Prize winning historian, she has conducted extensive archival and field research in coastal West Africa and the Gullah Geechee communities of the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. Fields-Black is the author of several scholarly works on rice cultivation and African diaspora history, and she frequently lectures on the history of slavery, Harriet Tubman, and the Combahee River Raid. She is a descendant of a freedom seeker who participated in the raid and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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