Rice and Slaves

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054431
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Rice and Slaves by : Daniel C. Littlefield

Download or read book Rice and Slaves written by Daniel C. Littlefield and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Littlefield's investigation of colonial South Carolinianss preference for some African ethnic groups over others as slaves reveals how the Africans' diversity and capabilities inhibited the development of racial stereotypes and influenced their masters' perceptions of slaves. It also highlights how South Carolina, perhaps more than anywhere else in North America, exemplifies the common effort of Africans and Europeans in molding American civilization.

Black Rice

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029216
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Rice by : Judith A. Carney

Download or read book Black Rice written by Judith A. Carney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves

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Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves by : Walter Hawthorne

Download or read book Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves written by Walter Hawthorne and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawthorne reevaluates long-held notions about the Atlantic slave trade's impact on a number of "stateless" societies in Africa's Guinea-Bissau region.

In the Shadow of Slavery

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949536
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Slavery by : Judith Carney

Download or read book In the Shadow of Slavery written by Judith Carney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods—millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example—are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots—"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"—became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.

The Carolina Rice Kitchen

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643363417
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis The Carolina Rice Kitchen by : Karen Hess

Download or read book The Carolina Rice Kitchen written by Karen Hess and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering history of the Carolina rice kitchen and its African influences Where did rice originate? How did the name Hoppin' John evolve? Why was the famous rice called "Carolina Gold"? The rice kitchen of early Carolina was the result of a myriad of influences—Persian, Arab, French, English, African—but it was primarily the creation of enslaved African American cooks. And it evolved around the use of Carolina Gold. Although rice had not previously been a staple of the European plantation owners, it began to appear on the table every day. Rice became revered and was eaten at virtually every meal and in dishes that were part of every course: soups, entrées, side dishes, dessert, and breads. The ancient way of cooking rice, developed in India and Africa, became the Carolina way. Carolina Gold rice was so esteemed that its very name became a generic term in much of the world for the finest long-grain rice available. This engaging book is packed with fascinating historical details, including more than three hundred recipes and a facsimile of the Carolina Rice Cook Book from 1901. A new foreword by John Martin Taylor underscores Hess's legacy as a culinary historian and the successful revival of Carolina Gold rice.

Rice

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810167174
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Rice by : Nikky Finney

Download or read book Rice written by Nikky Finney and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rice, her second volume of poetry, Nikky Finney explores the complexity of rice as central to the culture, economy, and mystique of the coastal South Carolina region where she was born and raised. The prized Carolina Gold rice paradoxically made South Carolina one of the most oppressive states for slaves and also created the remarkable Gullah culture on the coastal islands. The poems in Rice compose a profound and unflinching journey connecting family and the paradoxes of American history, from the tragic times when African slaves disembarked on the South Carolina coast to the triumphant day when Judge Ernest A. Finney Jr., Nikky’s father, was sworn in as South Carolina’s first African American chief justice. Images from the Finney family archive illustrate and punctuate this collection. Rice showcases Finney’s hungry intellect, her regional awareness and pride, and her sensitivity to how cultures are built and threatened.

Them Dark Days

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322100
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)

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Book Synopsis Them Dark Days by : William Dusinberre

Download or read book Them Dark Days written by William Dusinberre and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment. Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers’ letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, Them Dark Days offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.

Slavery Rice Culture

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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497315
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (973 download)

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Book Synopsis Slavery Rice Culture by : Julia Floyd Smith

Download or read book Slavery Rice Culture written by Julia Floyd Smith and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rice plantations were found in coastal Georgia which included Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden counties.

Slaves in the Family

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146689749X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Slaves in the Family by : Edward Ball

Download or read book Slaves in the Family written by Edward Ball and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"

Beyond the Rice Fields

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Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632061325
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond the Rice Fields by : Naivo

Download or read book Beyond the Rice Fields written by Naivo and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a twisted, long-denied family history, a rift opens that a rapidly shifting political and social terrain can only widen. As love and innocence fall away, their world becomes defined by what tyranny and superstition both thrive upon: fear. With captivating lyricism and undeniable urgency, Naivo crafts an unsentimental interrogation of the brutal history of nineteenth-century Madagascar as a land newly exposed to the forces of Christianity and modernity, and preparing for a violent reaction against them. Beyond the Rice Fields is a tour de force about the global history of human bondage and the competing narratives that keep us from recognizing ourselves and each other, our pasts and our destinies.

Lost Crops of Africa

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Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 9780309176897
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (768 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost Crops of Africa by : National Research Council

Download or read book Lost Crops of Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-02-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes of starvation have drawn the world's attention to Africa's agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Yet there is an overlooked food resource in sub-Saharan Africa that has vast potential: native food plants. When experts were asked to nominate African food plants for inclusion in a new book, a list of 30 species grew quickly to hundreds. All in all, Africa has more than 2,000 native grains and fruits--"lost" species due for rediscovery and exploitation. This volume focuses on native cereals, including African rice, reserved until recently as a luxury food for religious rituals. Finger millet, neglected internationally although it is a staple for millions. Fonio (acha), probably the oldest African cereal and sometimes called "hungry rice." Pearl millet, a widely used grain that still holds great untapped potential. Sorghum, with prospects for making the twenty-first century the "century of sorghum." Tef, in many ways ideal but only now enjoying budding commercial production. Other cultivated and wild grains. This readable and engaging book dispels myths, often based on Western bias, about the nutritional value, flavor, and yield of these African grains. Designed as a tool for economic development, the volume is organized with increasing levels of detail to meet the needs of both lay and professional readers. The authors present the available information on where and how each grain is grown, harvested, and processed, and they list its benefits and limitations as a food source. The authors describe "next steps" for increasing the use of each grain, outline research needs, and address issues in building commercial production. Sidebars cover such interesting points as the potential use of gene mapping and other "high-tech" agricultural techniques on these grains. This fact-filled volume will be of great interest to agricultural experts, entrepreneurs, researchers, and individuals concerned about restoring food production, environmental health, and economic opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa. Selection, Newbridge Garden Book Club

Connecting Continents

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000297535
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Connecting Continents by : Kenneth Kelly

Download or read book Connecting Continents written by Kenneth Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together richly textured and deeply empirical accounts of rice and how its cultivation in the Carolina low country stitch together a globe that maps colonial economies, displacement, and the creative solutions of enslaved people conscripted to cultivate its grain. If sugar fueled the economic hegemony of North Europe in the 18th and 19th century, rice fed it. Nowhere has this story been a more integral part of the landscape than Low Country of the coasts of Georgia, South and North Carolina. Rice played a key role in the expansion of slavery in the Carolinas during the 18th century as West African captives were enslaved, in part for their expertise in growing rice. Contributors to this volume explore the varied genealogies of rice cultivation in the Low Country through archaeological, anthropological, and historical research. This multi-sited volume draws on case studies from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and South Carolina, the Caribbean and India to both compare and connect these disparate regions. Through these studies the reader will learn how the rice cultivation knowledge of untold numbers of captive Africans contributed to the development of the Carolinas and by extension, the United States and Europe. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Deep Roots

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002966
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Deep Roots by : Edda L. Fields-Black

Download or read book Deep Roots written by Edda L. Fields-Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.

The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035692
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston by : Robert Francis Withers Allston

Download or read book The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston written by Robert Francis Withers Allston and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W. Allston makes available for a new generation of readers a firsthand look at one of South Carolinas most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built. Often cited by historians, Robert F.W. Allstons letters, speeches, receipts, and ledger entries chronicle both the heyday of the rice industry and its precipitate crash during the Civil War. As Daniel C. Littlefield underscores in his introduction to the new edition, these papers are significant not only because of Allstons position at the apex of planter society but also because his views represented those of the rice planter elite.

African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570030925
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina by : Amelia Wallace Vernon

Download or read book African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina written by Amelia Wallace Vernon and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of a community shaped by its African legacy.

A Grammar of Slave

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110861828
Total Pages : 1416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Slave by : Keren Rice

Download or read book A Grammar of Slave written by Keren Rice and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Rice Gold

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Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547971
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Book Synopsis Rice Gold by : James Bagwell

Download or read book Rice Gold written by James Bagwell and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a wealth of information, particularly from primary sources such as diaries, letters, plantation records, etc., the author has recreated the story of James Hamilton Couper and his times into an exciting, interesting, and readable account. The work begins with an introductory chapter. The Georgia Coast, a land of sluggish rivers, murkey blackwater swamps, and studded with a string of islands, is the home of a special breed of people. The are as wild, reckless, exciting, beautiful, and contradictory as the land itself.Bagwell examines the Couper heritage, from kings, war, and intrigue in Scotland to their firm establishment on the Georgia Coast. As colonial times move into antebellum, the Coupers progress, especially with James Hamilton Couper of Hopeton Plantation. On his grand tour of Europe, many on that continent commented on the abilities and potential of this young man.Couper made quite a name for himself in the area of politics, plantation management, scientific agriculture, archaeology, and architectural design. In the sinking of the Pulaski, he was hailed the hero of the occasion. The publication of this volume will be a valuable addition to the history and culture of the South, especially Georgia and its coast.