Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.
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 mor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253002969 0253002966 9781282238299 1282238299 9786612238291 6612238291 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |