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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
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HISTORIANS WHO HAVE looked beyond the conventional stereotypes of black inferiority know how most whites in the Western world have taken pains to ignore black accomplishments of the past. Throughout American history the character, intellect, and history of blacks have been attacked, ridiculed, and defamed. Nowhere in the standard history books do we learn that thousands of years ago blacks in Kenya were the first humans to use tools, that metal was being forged in Africa well before similar t...
