[PDF.23ls] Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

[PDF.ol72] Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

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 | #247495 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2002-03-01 |  2002-01-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.64 x6.13l,.90 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| The African Connection|By Bob Newman|Not long ago, it was common belief that rice was domesticated in Asia and brought to other parts of the world either by Muslims or European traders. Thus, if rice were cultivated in the Carolinas from the late 17th century on, the presence of that crop was due to some European intervention. Carney explodes this myth. Showing the existen|From Publishers Weekly|From Bondage to Freedom "Among the longstanding themes in African-American history is the debate over cultural survival and acculturation," observes UCLA geography professor Judith A. Carney in the introduction to Black Rice: The African O

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 States. By the middle of the eighteenth century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the black slaves who worked them had created one of the most profitable economies in the ...

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