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1. • • Because rice was not indigenous to the Americas and plantation owners had no knowledge of how to grow it, enslaved Africans were brought to fuel its husbandry, feeding the US' eastern seaboard, Britain and provisioning many parts of the British Caribbean.
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   How did slaves grow rice?

   • Slaves were attentive to subtleties of cultivating and processing rice, and they often grew it successfully in their own provision gardens. Also by the mid-18th century, slaves and rice planters were negotiating a new form of labor—called the “task system”—unlike any other in American history.

   Carolina’s Gold Coast: The Culture of Rice and Slavery

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   Did enslaved Africans plant rice?

   • Enslaved Africans quietly maintained their strong rice culture and morphed West African recipes to suit the plantation world (Credit: EyeEm Alamy) It built cities and fed colonies, but it turns out enslaved Africans didn't just plant the cash crop – they likely introduced its cultivation to the US. Why do you love the world?

   How rice shaped the American South - BBC

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   Did early Carolina planters grow rice from African slaves?

   • Early Carolina planters must have learned how to cultivate rice in swamps from their African slaves, some scholars have argued. West Africans, after all, had grown rice for thousands of years. The technology of cultivating Carolina rice, then, must have been “black” in its origins.

   Carolina’s Gold Coast: The Culture of Rice and Slavery

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   Why did slaves eat rice in the Middle Passage?

   • As slave ships plied the West African coast, their captains purchased it in bulk to feed their captives during the weeks-long Middle Passage. Eventually, unmilled seed rice found its way from ships’ larders into the hands of New World Africans, who planted it in their provision gardens or maroon hideaways.

   Rice Cultivation in the History of Slavery | Oxford Research

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   Do glaberrima rice and slaves contribute to the introduction of African crops?

   • This research challenges the Columbian Exchange perspective by focusing on culture, technology, and the environment. The evidence presented in the paper suggests a crucial role for glaberrima rice and slaves in the introduction of African crops to the Americas.

   The Role of African Rice and Slaves in the History of Rice Cultivation

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   How did slaves and rice planters work?

   • Also by the mid-18th century, slaves and rice planters were negotiating a new form of labor—called the “task system”—unlike any other in American history. A slave would work a given task in a day, and once that task was completed, he or she would grow food in subsistence gardens, hunt or fish, and often trade their goods along riverbanks.

   Carolina’s Gold Coast: The Culture of Rice and Slavery

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3. oxfordre.com › africanhistory › abstractRice Cultivation in the History of Slavery | Oxford Research ...

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   Many had experience growing rice. African rice often accompanied slave voyages. As slave ships plied the West African coast, their captains purchased it in bulk to feed their captives during the weeks-long Middle Passage.

4. www.bbc.com › travel › articleHow rice shaped the American South - BBC

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   Mar 8, 2021 · Indigenous rice from Africa was brought by enslavers to feed the New World. The difference between rice at home in West Africa and rice in the American South was more than just freedom versus...

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6. www.science.org › content › articleAmerican Rice: Out of Africa - Science | AAAS

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   Nov 16, 2007 · When slaves were brought to the American colonies from west Africa, they often grew various kinds of rice in small gardens to feed themselves. Rice became a cash crop for plantation owners, however, with the advent of a high-quality variety of rice in 1685.

7. www.jstor.org › stable › 4603297The Role of African Rice and Slaves in the History of Rice ...

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   The evidence presented in this paper suggests a crucial role for glaberrima rice and slaves in the introduction of African crops to the Americas. KEY WORDS: rice; slaves; technology transfer; Columbian exchange. If Africa appears to have provided little for other continents, it is because Africa.

8. www.nytimes.com › hill-rice-slave-historyFinding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking

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   Feb 13, 2018 · Upland red bearded rice, which grows in the Moruga district in Trinidad, turned out to be a missing culinary link between enslaved people in coastal Georgia and a group of slaves who were able...

9. academic.oup.com › ahr › articleBeyond “Black Rice”: Reconstructing Material and Cultural ...

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   Feb 1, 2010 · The ability to grow rice prior to enslavement, it is claimed, provided a material center around which family life could be reassembled, nurtured, and reproduced within slavery.

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    African slaves were allowed to marry, keep their families intact, and work in their own subsistence gardens, growing rice and other produce. Slaves often traded their goods for money or clothing. In 1700, a Carolina slave sold a packet of rice to John Lawton, the English explorer and naturalist.