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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, 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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Genre/Form:	Electronic books History Electronic book
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Fields-Black, Edda L. Deep roots. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008007846 (OCoLC)212908715
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
Document Type:	Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors:	Edda L Fields-Black Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780253002969 0253002966 9781282238299 1282238299 9786612238291 6612238291
OCLC Number:	434586616
Reproduction Notes:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 277 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:	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.
Series Title:	Blacks in the diaspora.
Responsibility:	Edda L. Fields-Black.

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