Edda Fields-Black

Writer and historian Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is a specialist in the transnational history of West Africa rice, peasant farmers in the pre-colonial Upper Guinea coast and enslaved laborers on antebellum Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations.

She is author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora and co-editor of Rice: Global Networks and New Histories.