TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fields-Black,Edda L.
TI  - Deep roots: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora 
T2  - Blacks in the diaspora
SN  - 9780253002969
AV  - DT543.42 .F54 2008eb
U1  - 633.1/80899632 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Nalu (African people)
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Guinea
KW  - Baga (African people)
KW  - Rice farmers
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Rice trade
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Rice
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Nalou (Peuple d'Afrique)
KW  - Guinée
KW  - Riziculteurs
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Riz
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Esclaves
KW  - Caroline du Sud
KW  - Géorgie (État)
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Agronomy
KW  - Crop Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Sklavenhandel
KW  - gnd
KW  - Reisanbau
KW  - Reishandel
KW  - Baga (peuple d'Afrique)
KW  - ram
KW  - Riziculture
KW  - Industrie et commerce
KW  - Traite des esclaves
KW  - Esclavage
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Caroline du Sud (États-Unis)
KW  - Géorgie (États-Unis)
KW  - USA
KW  - Südstaaten
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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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