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

• Superior document: Blacks in the diaspora
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Fields-Black, Edda L.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Blacks in the diaspora.
• Physical Description: xvi, 277 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of 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.