Basket Names and Ose Names: Not Preservation, but Diasporic Formation
Reframing naming practices across the Atlantic
What Crossed with the Captives
Read through African eyes, the Atlantic did not move labor alone. It moved knowledge, memory, political habit, ecological intelligence, and disciplined ways of surviving pressure. It also moved human streams that appear, in some cases, to have carried stronger reputations for resistance than others.
America’s 250th Anniversary and the Atlantic Ledger
America’s 250th Anniversary and the Atlantic Ledger: Freedom, Rice, and the Hidden Witness of Bunce Island
America at 250
America at 250: How Sierra Leone’s Rice Coast Powered the Treaty of Paris
I Entered a Dugout Cabin — And Stepped Into a Story the Textbooks Forgot
I Entered a Dugout Cabin — And Stepped Into a Story the Textbooks Forgot: Where the Cold Kept Memory, and the Earth Spoke Their Names
The Rice Coast of West Africa
How West African rice farmers shaped the Carolina Lowcountry and funded America’s founding through centuries of agricultural expertise along the Rice Coast.
Mali → Mane → Rice Coast: the expertise pipeline predates Carolina.
West African rice expertise traveled from Mali through the Mane migrations to the Rice Coast — long before Carolina planters claimed it as their own.