TY - BOOK AU - Fields-Black,Edda L. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Deep roots: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora T2 - Blacks in the diaspora AV - DT543.42 .F54 2008eb U1 - 633.1/80899632 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Nalu (African people) KW - Agriculture KW - Guinea KW - Baga (African people) KW - Rice farmers KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Rice trade KW - Slave trade KW - Rice KW - South Carolina KW - Georgia KW - Slavery KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10318092 ER -