No, rice is from Asia and Africa, and wasn't grown in the U.S. until the European colonization of the Americas.
so slaves can work on there plantations and the Americans were lazy to do there own job
The encomienda was introduced to the Americas by the Spanish settlers, authorized by the Spanish crown in 1503. The system was first devised when the Spanish conquered the Moors in Spain.
In Africa, there would be wars, the winners would take prisoners of war and would sell them to European traders who would sell them in the Americas to plantation owners who would use the slaves as free labor
Americas Quarterly was created in 2005.
Tobacco, maize, cocoa beans, potato, tomato, squash, wild rice and sweet potato.
The spanish
pilgrims
No, by the Spanish.
spanish
Christopher Columbus.
Guns and Steels
it was introduced in early 1700s with seeds from Madagascar
Chinese preists
rice and bananas
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