1st Edition
Connecting Continents Rice Cultivation in South Carolina and the Guinea Coast
1. Rice and its consequences in the greater "Atlantic" world
Kenneth G. Kelly
2. Atlantic rice and rice farmers: rising from debate, engaging new sources, methods, and modes of inquiry, and asking new questions
Edda L. Fields-Black
3. Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World: concepts, contours, and exchange
Christopher R. DeCorse
4. Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, Guinea
Kenneth G. Kelly and Elhadj Ibrahima Fall
5. Standing the test of time: embankment investigations, their implications for African technology transfer and effect on African American archaeology in South Carolina
Andrew Agha
6. "This na true story of our history": South Carolina in Sierra Leone’s historical memory
Nemata Blyden
7. Risky business: rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean
Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark W. Hauser
Biography
Kenneth G. Kelly is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, USA, and Professor of Anthropology by Courtesy Appointment, Syracuse University, USA. He is an archaeologist who explores the Diasporic links between West Africa and the Americas through the lens of plantation slavery and the slave trade and is a pioneer in multi-sited archaeology. He has conducted research in Benin, Guinea, Togo, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica.
