In this episode of Eat My Globe, our host, Simon Majumdar, shares the often very dark history of one of the world's most famous staples, rice.

With origins in both Africa and Asia, more than 3.5 billion people in the world eat rice every day. But, how many know that it was one of the drivers of slavery in what would become the United States of America?

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