Deep roots [electronic resource] : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.
Material type: TextSeries: Blacks in the diasporaPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008Description: xvi, 277 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 633.1/80899632 LOC classification: DT543.42 | .F54 2008Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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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