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Author Fields-Black, Edda L.

Title Deep roots [electronic resource] : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 277 p. : ill., maps.
Series Blacks in the diaspora
Blacks in the diaspora.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780253352194 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253352193 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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