Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields-Black, Edda L.

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nalu (African people)--Agriculture--Guinea.

Nalu (African people).

Nalu (African people)--Agriculture.

Slavery.

History.

Rice.

Slave trade.

Rice trade.

Rice farmers.

Guinea.

Baga (African people)--Agriculture--Guinea.

Baga (African people).

Baga (African people)--Agriculture.

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.

Georgia.

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

xvi, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780253352194

0253352193

OCLC:

212908715