“Combee: Freedom Seekers of the Combahee River Raid”
May 18, 2019 @ 2:00 am - 4:00 pm
An afternoon with historian Dr. Edda Fields-Black, Associate Professor in the Dep’t of History at Carnegie-Mellon University and a specialist in the trans-national migration of West African rice farmers, peasant farmers on the pre-colonial Upper Guinea Coast and enslaved laborers on rice plantations in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry.