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.

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."