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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".