Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora by Edda L. Fields-Black

Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora

Edda L. Fields-Black

296 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 th...

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