By Bruce Sinclair
ISBN-10: 0262195046
ISBN-13: 9780262195041
Race and expertise are of the main strong motifs in American historical past, yet till lately they've got rarely been thought of on the subject of one another. This number of essays examines the intersection of the 2 in a number of social and technological contexts, declaring, because the subtitle (borrowed from Brooke Hindle's vintage 1966 paintings Early American expertise) places it, the "needs and possibilities for study." The essays problem what editor Bruce Sinclair calls the "myth of black disingenuity"—the old conception that black humans have been technically incompetent. Enslaved Africans truly introduced with them the suggestions of rice cultivation that proved so ecocnomic to their white proprietors, and antebellum iron operating within the South depended seriously on blacks' craft talents. The essays record the realities of black technical creativity—in catalogs of patented inventiveness, within the use of "invisible applied sciences" similar to sea chanteys, and within the mastery of complicated new applied sciences. however the ebook additionally explores the commercial and social capabilities of the disingenuity fantasy, and as a result its patience. African-Americans frequently observed in new applied sciences a method to flee racial prejudice, yet white american citizens used them simply as usually to re-frame the bounds of social habit. The essays exhibit that applied sciences and racialized inspiration are even more tightly attached than now we have imagined.
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Good rice and good milk. . I asked our captain [pilot] the origin of this good rice. . He told me . . they had arrived at the Ydolles Islands and found that the Blacks abounded in the goods. At their market place they had several large mounds of rice . . ” (author’s translations) See also Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea, vol. 2 (London, 1899); G. R. Crone, The Voyages of Cadamosto (London, 1937); A. Donelha, An Account of Sierra Leone and the Rivers of Guinea and Cape Verde (Lisbon, 1977).
To the west the system flourished in the southeastern United States, principally along the coastal plain of South Carolina and Georgia (figure 1). On both sides of the Atlantic, rice growing depended on African labor. West African farmers planted rice as a subsistence crop on small holdings, with surpluses occasionally marketed, while the southeastern United States depended on a plantation system and West African slaves to produce a crop destined for international markets. While rice cultivation continues in West Africa today, its demise in South Carolina and Georgia swiftly followed the abolition of slavery.
After about a month’s growth the seedlings are transplanted atop the rice field’s ridges, a practice that promotes protec- Landscapes of Technology Transfer 31 tion from residual salinity. At this point, the mangrove rice field reverts to rain-fed cultivation. Harvest occurs about four months later, the crop ripening from accumulated moisture reserves after the rains cease. Farmers annually renew soil fertility during the dry season by periodically opening the sluices to tidal marine water. This action prevents the soil acidification that leads to acid-sulfate formation and permits deposit of organic matter.
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