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Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Deep Roots Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora - Blacks in the Diaspora
Author: Edda L. Fields-Black
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780253352194
ISBN-10: 0253352193
Publication Date: 9/29/2008
Pages: 296
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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