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Commodity illustration: Rice

Category:Provisions

Rice

Standard price
250 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
100 pieces of eight
Scarcity
300 pieces of eight

Export regions

Rice is shipped as dry grain, with its husk removed for eating. Boiling turns this easily overlooked cargo into a staple meal for large populations.

Asian cultivation supplies extensive markets, while rice also enters Atlantic trade. In late-seventeenth-century Carolina, exports grow through the agricultural knowledge and labour of enslaved Africans. The crop must be cultivated, harvested and prepared before loading; a uniform cargo of grain conceals the very different farms and labour systems behind it.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 524, 525, 526, 527, 533, 534, PDF pages 521.
  • La Révolte, p. 287, 308.

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.