plantations, it has been said that the rice crop was a major seller to Europe in the 1690 as well. Prior to Judith Carney research, many people assume the rice harvested from these plantations were from Asia. Carney broke this assumption by doing reserach of the sophisticated irrigation and drainage system that was in Americas and traced it back to West African origins. As such, there two factors can into play and as such reached a conclusion that Africans were the true creators of the Carolina rice…
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