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The Technology of Survival: How Enslaved Africans Built Carolina's Rice Empire
Enslaved Africans weren't brought to America just for labor — they were imported because of their knowledge. In this episode of Sankofa Chronicles, Mr. Black History traces how West African rice science, tidal-farming engineering, and iron metallurgy built South Carolina into the richest colony in British North America. Featuring the scholarship of Judith Carney (Black Rice) and Edda Fields-Black, the 1859 "Rice Field Negroes" broadside, Charles Ball's 1836 narrative, and the blacksmith lineage of Philip Simmons. Part of the Survival pillar of Season 1. Follow the show and share it with one…
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