Black Rice : : The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas / / Judith A. Carney.
Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United State...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Encounters
- 2 Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge
- 3 Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities
- 4 ThisWas “Woman’sWuck”
- 5 African Rice and the Atlantic World
- 6 Legacies
- Notes
- References
- Index