id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ebl-78	Anderson, E. N.	Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art	2010	2	.pdf	application/pdf	880	47	60	Anglo-American planters wanted to grow rice, but did not know how; they imported slaves from the parts of West Africa where native rice, Oryza glaberrima, was domesticated and grown. Teasing out the full complexity of the sources of baskets is difficult, but it appears that not only the rice- growing areas of West Africa, but all of the West African slave source areas from the Gambia to Angola, were involved in basket history and in the formation of the Gullah (or Geechee) ethnic group on the Sea Islands.	cache/ebl-78.pdf	txt/ebl-78.txt