Historian Peter H. Wood recently took part in a podcast entitled "Fields," produced by a Brooklyn-based group exploring aspects of American agriculture, past and present. The one-hour episode, released on February 3 as part of Black History Month, can be found here: https://heritageradionetwork.org/episode/dr-peter-h-wood-rice-and-reshaping-south-carolina.
The conversation focuses on the introduction of West African rice cultivation into early South Carolina, a topic covered in Wood's pioneering book, Black Majority (1974) which explored the growth of slavery and racism in that wealthy southern colony. Professor Wood is also the author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America (2002), and Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States (2004), a college text now in its fifth edition.
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