Walter Hawthorne argued that mastery of this good allowed the Balanta people to resist the slave trade while also maintaining a stateless society. The Bana people’s expertise in producing this good appears in a 2001 work by Judith Carney discussing this good’s involvement in the Columbian Exchange. The fanompoana (“fah-noom-POH-nah”) forced-labor system was first employed to prepare land for this crop, (10[1])which involved spades known as angady. Monty Jones’s NERICA project attempted to replace a hardy variety of this crop grown around the fadamas of the Niger River. This crop lends its name to an African “coast” that the Gullah trace their ancestry to. (10[1])In the early 1700s, the Coosaw·hatchie, Santee, and Edisto river basins became hot (10[1])spots for growing varieties of this crop like Carolina (10[1])Gold. (10[8]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1]-5[2])name this crop (-5[1])that is grown in paddies. (10[1])■END■ (10[6])