| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Blacks in the diaspora
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
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 pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its exami. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea.
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Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture. |
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Guinea. |
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Baga (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea.
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Baga (African people) -- Agriculture. |
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Rice farmers -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century.
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Rice farmers. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Rice trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century.
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Rice trade. |
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Slave trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade. |
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Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
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Rice. |
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South Carolina. |
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Rice -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century.
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Georgia. |
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Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
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Slavery. |
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Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fields-Black, Edda L. Deep roots. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 9780253352194 0253352193 (DLC) 2008007846 (OCoLC)212908715 |
| ISBN |
9780253002969 (electronic book) |
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0253002966 (electronic book) |
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9780253352194 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253352193 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612238291 |
