Connecting Continents

ISBN-13: 9780367644178 / Miękka / 2023 / 126 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Rice and its consequences in the greater "Atlantic" world

Kenneth G. Kelly

2. Atlantic rice and rice farmers: rising from debate, engaging new sources, methods, and modes of inquiry, and asking new questions

Edda L. Fields-Black

3. Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World: concepts, contours, and exchange

Christopher R. DeCorse

4. Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea

Kenneth G. Kelly and Elhadj Ibrahima Fall

5. Standing the test of time: embankment investigations, their implications for African technology transfer and effect on African American archaeology in South Carolina

Andrew Agha

6. "This na true story of our history": South Carolina in Sierra Leone’s historical memory

Nemata Blyden

7. Risky business: rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean

Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark W. Hauser

O autorze

Kenneth G. Kelly is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, USA, and Professor of Anthropology by Courtesy Appointment, Syracuse University, USA. He is an archaeologist who explores the Diasporic links between West Africa and the Americas through the lens of plantation slavery and the slave trade and is a pioneer in multi-sited archaeology. He has conducted research in Benin, Guinea, Togo, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica.