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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434586616 Title: Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora Author: Edda L Fields-Black Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780253002969 0253002966 9781282238299 1282238299 9786612238291 6612238291 OCLC:434586616

  
  

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Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora

Author:	Edda L Fields-Black
Publisher:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008.
Series:	Blacks in the diaspora.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea. Baga (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea. Rice farmers -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century. View all subjects
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