Trinidad

Azizah_Sabira

Azizah Mohammed, 32, (left) and sister Sabira Mohammed, 29


Anisa_Daud

Anisa Mohammed, 53, and her husband Daud, 56


Aiydah

Aiydah Firdaws Waheed-Hasib 23


IMG_8555

Al Haj Moulvi Fateh Dad Khan (r.a)




Moruga_Hill_Rice

Upland red bearded rice was once a household staple for enslaved people in the American South. The African rice was thought to be lost until Mr. Morean discovered fields of it being grown in Trinidad. Credit Hunter McRae for The New York Times


moruga_rice

In fields dotting the Moruga Hills of southern Trinidad, growers tend rice plants that came from an African strain. It was carried there by slaves from coastal Georgia who had been granted land and freedom in exchange for joining the British military during the War of 1812. Credit Carolina Gold Rice Foundation