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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.
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.
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Amazon Expedient (Paperback)
Kenneth Kelly; Illustrated by Mitchell Bentley; Edited by Kristi King-Morgan
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R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Magenta Salvation (Paperback)
Kenneth Kelly; Edited by Kristi King-Morgan; Piers Anthony
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R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
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Virtue Inverted (Paperback)
Kenneth Kelly; Illustrated by Mitch Bentley; Edited by Kristi King-Morgan
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R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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Les habitations-plantations constituent le creuset historique et
symbolique ou fut fondu l alliage original que sont les cultures
antillaises. Elles sont le berceau des societes creoles
contemporaines qui y ont puise tant leur forte parente que leur
diversite. Leur etude a ete precocement le terrain de predilection
des historiens. Les archeologues antillanistes se consacraient
alors plus volontiers a l etude des societes precolombiennes.
Ainsi, en dehors des travaux pionniers de J. Handler et F. Lange a
la Barbade, c est surtout depuis la fin des annees 1980 qu un
veritable developpement de l archeologie des
habitations-plantations antillaises a pu etre observe. Les
questions pouvant etre traitees par l archeologie des
habitations-plantations sont extremement riches et multiples et ne
sauraient etre epuisees par la publication d un unique ouvrage. Les
differents chapitres qui composent ce livre dirige par K. Kelly et
B. Berard n ont pas vocation a tendre a l exhaustivite. Ils nous
semblent, par contre, etre representatifs, par la variete des
questions abordee et la diversite des angles d approche, de la
dynamique actuelle de ce champ de la recherche. Cette diversite est
evidemment liee a celle des espaces concernes: les
habitations-plantations de cinq iles des Petites Antilles: Antigua,
la Guadeloupe, la Dominique, la Martinique et la Barbade sont ici
etudiees. Elle est aussi, au sein d un meme espace, due a la
cohabitation de differentes pratiques universitaires. Nous esperons
que cet ouvrage, tout en diffusant une information jusqu a present
trop dispersee, sera le point de depart de nouveaux travaux. Ce
developpement de la recherche est une necessite scientifique mais
aussi sociale pour les populations antillaises. L archeologie
historique est une voie d acces privilegiee aux interstices de l
histoire coloniale (contact precoloniaux, commerce interlope,
marronnage physique et moral, necessaires concessions fruits de la
negociation permanente entre la norme coloniale et realite
quotidienne, etc.). En fouillant la terre antillaise, les
archeologues ne peuvent que conter la quotidiennete de la vie au
sein de l archipel. Or c est aussi (beaucoup ?) de ces interstices,
s inscrivant le plus souvent dans des echelles micro-locales,
locales ou regionales, qu ont emerge les cultures antillaises."
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