Connections: Rice Technology

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Edda Fields, Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University.  Dr. Fields discussed the innovation of new rice growing technologies and the creation of new rice cultures among the enslaved Africans in Coastal South Carolina and Georgia.

Alpha Bah, College of Charleston professor of History discussed lowcountry associations with rice.

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Review of Black Rice by Judith Carney