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

by Edda L. Fields-black and Edda L. Fields-Black

Book Overview

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, quite unlike the static, homogenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025301610X
• ISBN13: 9780253016102
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher