Reading: Ode to the Kayendo

Grego, Caroline (2021) The Search for the Kayendo: Recovering the Low Country rice toolkit. American Historical Review, September 2021, 1165-1183

What a now-obscure but unique hand tool tells us about slave life in the South. Dr. Caroline Grego proves that sometimes history is little different than detective work.

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