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Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora /
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 mor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253002969 0253002966 9781282238299 1282238299 9786612238291 6612238291 |