Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina (Blacks in the New World)
by Daniel C. Littlefield
List Price:
Our Price: $5.45
You Save: $17.55 (76%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $3.38 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Daniel C. LittlefieldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-06-01
ISBN: 0252062140
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Reviews of Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina (Blacks in the New World)
Book Review: Excellent, Readable Study
Summary: 5 Stars
In this thorough and readable study, Daniel C. Littlefield examines the African heritage of rice cultivation in colonial South Carolina. Littlefield discusses the choices rice planters made in securing workers from certain African regions; he also discusses the knowledge these Africans brought to the plantation economy. Littlefield argues that expertise in rice cultivation mostly came to South Carolina from Africa. Rice was grown by the Malagasy, the people of Madagascar, and by many peoples of Upper Guinea (a region encompassing the modern nations of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia). South Carolina planters, in fact, paid the highest prices for workers from Senegambia (the environs of the Senegal and Gambia rivers), a major center of rice cultivation in Africa. Littlefield argues that, throughout the era of the slave trade, South Carolina merchants and planters showed an increasingly sophisticated knowledge of African regions and ethnic groups. He also asserts that not only African labor, but African expertise helped generate the wealth of the opulent Carolina Lowcountry. This work should prove interesting to those interested in African-American history, Southern history, and colonial American demography. Particularly intriguing is Littlefield's research based on the newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves in South Carolina. That portion of the work includes a list of different African ethnic groups present in South Carolina.
More Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina (Blacks in the New World) reviews:
1
1
Business & Investing Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Business & Investing Books
Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millionsby Edward Ugel
HarperBusiness; Published: 2007-09-18; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.29
Price in other shops:
You Can Do It! CDby Jonathan D. Pond
HarperAudio; Published: 2006-11-28; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $2.05
Price in other shops:
China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Societyby John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt
HarperBusiness; Published: 2010-01-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperityby Richard Florida
Harper; Published: 2010-04-27; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.96
Price in other shops:
Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insuranceby Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow; Published: 2009-10-20; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.88
Price in other shops:
Attitude is Everything Rev Ed: 10 Life-Changing Steps to Turning Attitude into Actionby Keith Harrell
HarperBusiness; Published: 2005-05-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.31
Price in other shops:
Get Back in the Box: How Being Great at What You Do Is Great for Businessby Douglas Rushkoff
HarperBusiness; Published: 2007-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.70
Price in other shops:
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Tradersby Jack D. Schwager
Perennial (HarperCollins); Published: 1990-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.99
The Truth About Money 3rd Editionby Ric Edelman
HarperBusiness; Published: 2003-12-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.77
Price in other shops:
J.K. Lasser's Taxes Made Easy for Your Home-Based Businessby Gary W. Carter
Macmillan General Reference; Published: 1999-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
The Jamestown Projectby Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Published: 2009-02-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $17.99
Price in other shops:
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identityby Jill Lepore
Vintage; Published: 1999-04-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New Englandby Carol F. Karlsen
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 1998-04-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops:
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717by Professor Alan Gallay
Yale University Press; Published: 2003-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.00
Price in other shops:
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Harvard Historical Studies, 133)by Alison Games
Harvard University Press; Published: 2001-11-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $25.16
Price in other shops:
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (Norton Library)by Peter H. Wood
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 1996-04-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.95
Price in other shops:
Quakers And Politics: Pennsylvania 1681-1726by Gary B. Nash
Northeastern; Published: 1993-10-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.95
Price in other shops:
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New Englandby David D. Hall
Harvard University Press; Published: 1990-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $23.78
Price in other shops:
Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640by Patricia Seed
Cambridge University Press; Published: 1995-10-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)by Richard S. Dunn
The University of North Carolina Press; Published: 2000-05-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.86
Price in other shops: