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Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.

Baga (African people) --- Nalu (African people) --- Rice farmers --- Rice trade --- Rice --- Slave trade --- Slavery --- Agriculture --- History --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Anthropology / Cultural --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Lowland paddy --- Lowland rice --- Oryza sativa --- Paddy (Plant) --- Padi --- Palay --- Rice industry --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Oryza --- Grain trade --- Farmers --- Rice workers --- Enslaved persons