TY - BOOK AU - Fields-Black, Edda L. TI - Deep roots: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora SN - 9780253352194 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 633.18 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 - Rice trade KW - Slave trade KW - Rice KW - South Carolina KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Georgia KW - Slavery N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index; The Rio Nunez region : a small corner of West Africa's rice coast re gion -- The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technolo gy -- The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology -- C oastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growi ng technologies -- The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growi ng technology -- Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captiv es from West Africa's rice coast -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : fieldwor k interviews -- Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spo ken in the coastal Rio Nunez region ER -