Book Signing with Author Dr. Edda Fields-Black

Overview

Join Lincolnville Museum & Cultural Center for a book signing with Dr. Edda Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. Fields-Black is a renowned scholar known for her work on West African rice farmers and the African Diaspora. Her other works include Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora and Rice: Global Networks and New Histories. A descendant of Africans enslaved on rice plantations in Colleton County, South Carolina, her family history connects to the Combahee River Raid and Gullah Geechee culture. This free program begins at noon. 102 M.L. King Ave., St. Augustine. www.lincolnvillemuseum.org