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By the 1720s, Carolina rice growers were telling slave traders that they wanted skilled Africans from the Rice Coast above all others. During the eighteenth century, more enslaved Africans from the Rice Coast were hauled into the ports of Charleston and Savannah than any other African region. β€œRice growing was a particularly complex form of agriculture, and that’s why planters needed people from that part of Africa.