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Author Fields-Black, Edda L.

Title Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Blacks in the diaspora
Blacks in the diaspora.
Contents The Rio Nunez region : a small corner of West Africa's rice coast region -- The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technology -- The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology -- Coastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growing technologies -- The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growing technology -- Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captives from West Africa's rice coast -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : fieldwork interviews -- Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spoken in the coastal Rio Nunez region
Summary Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its exami
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index
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Subject Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea
Baga (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea
Rice farmers -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
Rice trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
Slave trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
Rice -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
Baga (African people) -- Agriculture
Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture
Rice
Rice farmers
Rice trade
Slave trade
Slavery
Sklavenhandel
Reisanbau
Reishandel
Baga (peuple d'Afrique) -- Guinée -- Agriculture.
Riziculture -- Guinée -- 18e siècle.
Riz -- Industrie et commerce -- Guinée -- 18e siècle.
Traite des esclaves -- Guinée -- 18e siècle.
Esclavage -- États-Unis -- Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle.
Esclavage -- États-Unis -- Géorgie (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle.
Georgia
Guinea
South Carolina
Guinea
USA -- Südstaaten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253002969
0253002966
9781282238299
1282238299
9786612238291
6612238291