Edda L. Fields-Black

Edda L. Fields-Black is an American historian and professor whose work centers on the African diaspora, slavery, and the Gullah Geechee people of the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. She is the author of "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War," a landmark work that illuminates one of the most daring military operations of the era. Fields-Black brings meticulous archival research and vivid storytelling to her scholarship, recovering the voices of enslaved people and freedom seekers. She is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she continues to advance the field of African American history.