Deep roots [electronic resource] : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.
Series: Blacks in the diasporaPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.Description: xvi, 277 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780253352194 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253352193 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
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- DT543.42 .F54 2008eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.
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.
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