SPOTLIGHT ON HARRIET TUBMAN – NONFICTION

EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK’s previous book, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (Indiana University Press) – as well as her work as executive producer and librettist of Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice with Emmy Award-winning composer John Wineglass – reflect her long involvement with the interconnective story of rice cultivation in pre-colonial West Africa and on antebellum Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia plantations. She has been a consultant at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the International African American Museum, and the Senator John Heinz History Center. Fields-Black lives with her family in Pittsburgh, where she teaches history and directs the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

TIYA MILES is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University, the author of five prize-winning works on the history of slavery and early American race relations, and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She was the founder and director of the Michigan-based ECO Girls program and is the author of The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning All That She Carried. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book is Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Significations) (Penguin Press).