Kenneth G. Kelly is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, USA, and Professor of Anthropology by Courtesy Appointment, Syracuse University, USA. He is an archaeologist who explores the Diasporic links between West Africa and the Americas through the lens of plantation slavery and the slave trade and is a pioneer in multi-sited archaeology. He has conducted research in Benin, Guinea, Togo, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica.

• 1. Rice and its consequences in the greater "Atlantic" worldKenneth G. Kelly2. Atlantic rice and rice farmers: rising from debate, engaging new sources, methods, and modes of inquiry, and asking new questionsEdda L. Fields-Black3. Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World: concepts, contours, and exchangeChristopher R. DeCorse4. Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, GuineaKenneth G. Kelly and Elhadj Ibrahima Fall5. Standing the test of time: embankment investigations, their implications for African technology transfer and effect on African American archaeology in South Carolina Andrew Agha6. "This na true story of our history": South Carolina in Sierra Leone’s historical memory Nemata Blyden7. Risky business: rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark W. Hauser

Kenneth G. Kelly is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, USA, and Professor of Anthropology by Courtesy Appointment, Syracuse University, USA. He is an archaeologist who explores the Diasporic links between West Africa and the Americas through the lens of plantation slavery and the slave trade and is a pioneer in multi-sited archaeology. He has conducted research in Benin, Guinea, Togo, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica.

• 1. Rice and its consequences in the greater "Atlantic" worldKenneth G. Kelly2. Atlantic rice and rice farmers: rising from debate, engaging new sources, methods, and modes of inquiry, and asking new questionsEdda L. Fields-Black3. Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World: concepts, contours, and exchangeChristopher R. DeCorse4. Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, GuineaKenneth G. Kelly and Elhadj Ibrahima Fall5. Standing the test of time: embankment investigations, their implications for African technology transfer and effect on African American archaeology in South Carolina Andrew Agha6. "This na true story of our history": South Carolina in Sierra Leone’s historical memory Nemata Blyden7. Risky business: rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark W. Hauser

Kenneth G. Kelly is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, USA, and Professor of Anthropology by Courtesy Appointment, Syracuse University, USA. He is an archaeologist who explores the Diasporic links between West Africa and the Americas through the lens of plantation slavery and the slave trade and is a pioneer in multi-sited archaeology. He has conducted research in Benin, Guinea, Togo, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica.

• 1. Rice and its consequences in the greater "Atlantic" worldKenneth G. Kelly2. Atlantic rice and rice farmers: rising from debate, engaging new sources, methods, and modes of inquiry, and asking new questionsEdda L. Fields-Black3. Sierra Leone in the Atlantic World: concepts, contours, and exchangeChristopher R. DeCorse4. Employing archaeology to (dis)entangle the nineteenth-century illegal slave trade on the Rio Pongo, GuineaKenneth G. Kelly and Elhadj Ibrahima Fall5. Standing the test of time: embankment investigations, their implications for African technology transfer and effect on African American archaeology in South Carolina Andrew Agha6. "This na true story of our history": South Carolina in Sierra Leone’s historical memory Nemata Blyden7. Risky business: rice and inter-colonial dependencies in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark W. Hauser