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.
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