Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora

Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora /

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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Main Author: Fields-Black, Edda L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2008
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:
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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