![]() African farmers in that region had been growing indigenous African rice for thousands of years and were experts in cultivating the difficult crop. The African region stretched between what is now Senegal and Gambia in the north to Sierra Leone and Liberia in the south. In Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974), Wood showed that South Carolina rice planters during the Colonial Era chose enslaved Africans specifically from the "Rice Coast" of West Africa because of their expertise in rice cultivation and its technology. At around the same time, a dozen major books were published on American slavery. Published in 1974, it was part of major revisions in the ways historians studied African-American history. Wood wrote the original version of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion as his PhD dissertation, which was awarded a prize. ![]()
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