Deep roots
Subtitle: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora
By: Edda L. Fields-Black.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780253352194
Subjects: Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea; Baga (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea; Rice farmers -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century; Rice trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century; Slave trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century; Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Rice -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century; Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Rio Nunez region : a small corner of West Africa's rice coast region; title: The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technology; title: The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology; title: Coastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growing technologies; title: The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growing technology; title: Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captives from West Africa's rice coast; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix 1 : fieldwork interviews; title: Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spoken in the coastal Rio Nunez region.