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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Carney, Judith Ann. Black rice. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001 (DLC) 00053941 (OCoLC)45270253 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Ann Carney |
ISBN: | 9780674029217 0674029216 |
OCLC Number: | 657619002 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Preface Introduction 1. Encounters 2. Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge 3. Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities 4. This Was "Woman's Wuck" 5. African Rice and the Atlantic World 6. Legacies Notes References Index |
Series Title: | ACLS Fellows' publications.; ACLS Humanities E-Book. |
Responsibility: | Judith A. Carney. |
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Exploring crops, landscapes and agricultural practices in Africa and America, [Carney] demonstrates the critical role Africans played in the creation of the system of rice production that provided the foundation of Carolina's wealth...This detailed study of historical botany, technological adaptation and agricultural diffusion adds depth to our understanding of slavery and makes a compelling case for "the agency of slaves" in the creation of the South's economy and culture. -- Drew Gilpin Faust New York Times Book Review 20010422 Contrary to common belief, [Carney] explains, rice was not brought by Europeans to the Americas by way of Asia, but rather was introduced here by Africans and cultivated by African-American slaves, particularly in South Carolina, where rice crops proved to be one of the most profitable plantation-based economies. Though this is a scholarly work, Carney's clear, uncluttered prose invites a wider readership. Publishers Weekly 20010219 Black Rice sets out to discredit for good an old Southern recipe for history that depicts slaves as mere laborers who dumbly performed work their masters conceived. Carney tells it the other way around. After years visiting West African rice fields, then digging in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, she has emerged with evidence that early slave traders sought and seized Africans who had the abilities to grow a specific African rice...Black Rice might be called an agricultural detective story. The historical crime--and that's clearly how Carney sees it--is the relative lack of attention given to African rice. -- Allan M. Jalon Los Angeles Times 20010820 Judith A. Carney's Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas...describes how the South Carolina rice industry was built not only on slave labor but on the agricultural and technological knowledge brought over by the Africans...[It] changes our understanding of the black contribution to American life. -- Barry Gewen New York Times Book Review 20050605 Read more...


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- Rice -- Southern States -- History.
- Rice -- Africa, West -- History.
- Slaves -- Southern States.
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
- Rice.
- Slaves.
- West Africa.
- Southern States.
- Sklaverei
- Reisanbau
- Westafrika
- USA -- Südstaaten
- Rijstbouw.
- Slaven (arbeid)
- Sklaverei.
- Reisanbau.
- Westafrika.
- USA -- Südstaaten.
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