This map demonstrates the relationship of rice farming and the relocation diffusion of African rice farmers into slavery. African people along the rice coast were captured and sold into slavery to wealthy South Carolinian families. The plantation owners in South Carolina used slave labor in order to build rice fields. There are several similarities and differences between the two types of rice fields. Both of the rice fields are constructed similarly, and have access to large water sources, levees, and ditches. However, the South Carolina rice fields are much larger in comparison to the African rice fields. Upon examination using the ruler tool in Google Earth, I have found that the South Carolina rice fields are about .15 miles in horizontal length, and .27 miles in vertical length while the African rice fields are only 02 miles in horizontal length and .04 miles in vertical length. In the reading by Sluyter, the size difference can be explained by the use of slave labor. There was more labor forced to do the work, so plantation owners were able to have much larger rice fields, while African rice farmers had limited labor sources and were farming for subsistence not trade goods. During my research I discovered that the African rice fields seem to be more organized and shallower than the American ones. This could be explained by the fact that the South Carolina rice fields were largely abandoned after the civil war,but the African rice fields are still being maintained today. I also observed that the African rice fields are much closer to the coast than the South Carolina rice fields. The South Carolina rice field. The African rice fields are only 2.23 miles from the coast, while the South Carolina rice fields average to be 28.75 miles from the coast. The difference in environment of African and North American may play a role in how these fields are situated.