LEADER 03466nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910454584103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02921-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674029217 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786754 035 $a(EBL)3300415 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133807 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10097663 035 $a(PQKB)11180955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300415 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318408 035 $a(OCoLC)923111214 035 $a(DE-B1597)574314 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674029217 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786754 100 $a20001025d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack rice$b[electronic resource] $ethe African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas /$fJudith A. Carney 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-00452-3 311 $a0-674-00834-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-232). 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Encounters -- $t2. Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge -- $t3. Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities -- $t4. This Was "Woman's Wuck" -- $t5. African Rice and the AtlanticWorld -- $t6. Legacies -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aFew 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 world. Black Rice tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence, the vital significance of rice in West African society for a millennium before Europeans arrived and the slave trade began. The standard belief that Europeans introduced rice to West Africa and then brought the knowledge of its cultivation to the Americas is a fundamental fallacy, one which succeeds in effacing the origins of the crop and the role of Africans and African-American slaves in transferring the seed, the cultivation skills, and the cultural practices necessary for establishing it in the New World. In this vivid interpretation of rice and slaves in the Atlantic world, Judith Carney reveals how racism has shaped our historical memory and neglected this critical African contribution to the making of the Americas. 606 $aRice$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aRice$zAfrica, West$xHistory 606 $aSlaves$zSouthern States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRice$xHistory. 615 0$aRice$xHistory. 615 0$aSlaves 676 $a338.17318097 700 $aCarney$b Judith Ann$0792383 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454584103321 996 $aBlack rice$91771810 997 $aUNINA