Hawthorne, Walter

Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves : Transformations Along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction The Dynamics of Regional Interactions Political, Economic, and Agricultural Patterns Before the Mid-Sixteenth Century Shipping Slaves from a Decentralized Region Producing Slaves in a Decentralized Region The Dynamics of Intracommunity Interactions Struggles over New Political and Economic Institutions in Balanta Communities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Rise of Balanta Paddy Rice Production and Masculinization of Agricultural Labor in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Political, Economic, and Agricultural Patterns in the Nineteenth Century Conclusion Appendices Glossary of Foreign Terms and Measurements Bibliography Index