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Author:

Fields-Black, Edda L.

Title:

Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvi, 277 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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 (p. [237]-256) and index.

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:

Blacks in the diaspora

ISBN:

0253352193 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253352194 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)212908715

LCCN:

2008007846

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)