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We're looking at two main areas of western Africa. So the Upper Guinea coast and the Congo Angola region, with almost 80% of the captives who disembark into the Lowcountry, coastal Georgia and coastal South Carolina, coming from these regions. More actually from Upper Guinea coast coming into coastal Georgia. And for those Upper Guinea coast captives, the landscape was relatively similar. There was a lot of similarity in the vegetation and the soils.

What we suspect is that enslaved people were growing rice in their provision grounds. And we see in the 1600s enslaved people actually selling rice, and that it's probably from these provision grounds that planters got the idea as they are searching for a staple crop for the Carolina colony, that rice could be that crop. And through the experimentation of enslaved people, began to experiment in their other fields with commercial rice production.

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Edda Fields-Black on African slaves' role in early Lowcountry rice cultivation

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