Black Rice

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Thu May 17 10:51:00 PDT 2001



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The New York Times April 22, 2001, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 7; Page 31; Column 2; Book Review Desk HEADLINE: Seeds of History BYLINE: By Drew Gilpin Faust; Drew Gilpin Faust's most recent book is "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War."

BLACK RICE The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. By Judith A. Carney. Illustrated. 240 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $37.50.

In low-country South Carolina, American slavery assumed a distinctive form, one that has captured the attention of generations of historians. Between the end of the 17th century and the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of people of African descent toiled in swamps,

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CB: Gives new meaning to the expression "like white on rice".



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