Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora by Edda L. Fields-Black

Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora

Edda L. Fields-Black

296 pages hardcover 2008

2 editions

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 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 t...

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