This tasty rice might be their good luck charm 🍚
Of the hundreds of thousands of enslaved West Africans brought to British North America to cultivate indigo and tobacco, some came from a region in West Africa where they grew a native species of rice. Some slave ships were provisioned with this reddish-hued rice to feed the enslaved during the harrowing, weeks-long journey across the Atlantic Ocean, known as “The Middle Passage.”
The marked success of the enslaved rice farmers motivated many slaveholders to cultivate rice on a large scale. By the late 1600s, rice varieties from Asia and West Africa were farmed along the coastal regions of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. The Carolina Gold rice rush ended in the late 1800s when post-Civil War economic forces and a series of storms ravaged the industry.
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