(RICE) Caribbean and Latin America
Rice is not native to the Americas but was introduced to Latin America and the Caribbean by
European colonizers at an early date with
Spanish colonizers introducing
Asian rice to Mexico in the 1520s at
Veracruz and the
Portuguese and their African slaves introducing it at about the same time to
Colonial Brazil.
[27] Recent scholarship suggests that
African slaves played an active role in the establishment of rice in the
New World and that
African rice was an important crop from an early period.
[28] Varieties of
rice and bean dishes that were a staple dish along the peoples of
West Africa remained a staple among their descendants subjected to
slavery in the Spanish New World colonies Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas.
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