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Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora, Edda L. Fields-Black
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780253002969
- Label
- Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora
- Title
- Deep roots
- Title remainder
- rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora
- Statement of responsibility
- Edda L. Fields-Black
- Subject
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- 1700-1799
- Baga (African people) -- Agriculture
- Baga (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea
- Baga (peuple d'Afrique) -- Guinée -- Agriculture
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Esclavage -- États-Unis | Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
- Esclavage -- États-Unis | Géorgie (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
- Georgia
- Guinea
- Guinea
- History
- Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture
- Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea
- Reisanbau
- Reishandel
- Rice
- Rice -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
- Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
- Rice farmers
- Rice farmers -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
- Rice trade
- Rice trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
- Riz -- Industrie et commerce -- Guinée -- 18e siècle
- Riziculture -- Guinée -- 18e siècle
- Sklavenhandel
- Slave trade
- Slave trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
- Slavery
- Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
- South Carolina
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture | Agronomy | Crop Science
- Traite des esclaves -- Guinée -- 18e siècle
- USA -- Südstaaten
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fields-Black, Edda L
- Dewey number
- 633.1/80899632
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- DT543.42
- LC item number
- .F54 2008eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Blacks in the diaspora
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nalu (African people)
- Baga (African people)
- Rice farmers
- Rice trade
- Slave trade
- Rice
- Rice
- Slavery
- Slavery
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
- Baga (African people)
- Nalu (African people)
- Rice
- Rice farmers
- Rice trade
- Slave trade
- Slavery
- Georgia
- Guinea
- South Carolina
- Sklavenhandel
- Reisanbau
- Reishandel
- Guinea
- USA
- Baga (peuple d'Afrique)
- Riziculture
- Riz
- Traite des esclaves
- Esclavage
- Esclavage
- Label
- Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora, Edda L. Fields-Black
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 434586616
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780253002969
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786612238291
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 223829
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)434586616
- 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.
- Label
- Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora, Edda L. Fields-Black
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 434586616
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780253002969
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786612238291
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 223829
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)434586616
- 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.
Subject
- 1700-1799
- Baga (African people) -- Agriculture
- Baga (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea
- Baga (peuple d'Afrique) -- Guinée -- Agriculture
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Esclavage -- États-Unis | Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
- Esclavage -- États-Unis | Géorgie (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
- Georgia
- Guinea
- Guinea
- History
- Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture
- Nalu (African people) -- Agriculture -- Guinea
- Reisanbau
- Reishandel
- Rice
- Rice -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
- Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
- Rice farmers
- Rice farmers -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
- Rice trade
- Rice trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
- Riz -- Industrie et commerce -- Guinée -- 18e siècle
- Riziculture -- Guinée -- 18e siècle
- Sklavenhandel
- Slave trade
- Slave trade -- Guinea -- History -- 18th century
- Slavery
- Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
- South Carolina
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture | Agronomy | Crop Science
- Traite des esclaves -- Guinée -- 18e siècle
- USA -- Südstaaten
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century
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