Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Food and the African past -- African plants on the move -- African food crops and the Guinea trade -- African food and the Atlantic crossing -- Maroon subsistence strategies -- The Africanization of plantation food systems -- Botanical gardens of the dispossessed -- Guinea's plants and European empire -- African animals and grasses in the New World tropics -- Memory dishes of Africa's botanical legacy. |
Summary |
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods-millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example-are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestersh |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Black people -- Ethnobotany -- America -- History.
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Black people -- Ethnobotany. |
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America. |
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History. |
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Black people. |
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Black people -- Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History.
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Africa. |
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Enslaved persons -- America -- History.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Ethnobotany -- America -- History.
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Ethnobotany. |
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Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History.
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Plants, Edible -- America -- History.
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Plants, Edible -- Africa -- History.
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Medicinal plants -- America -- History.
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Medicinal plants -- Africa -- History.
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America -- Civilization -- African influences.
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Civilization. |
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Plants, Edible. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany. |
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Medicinal plants. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General. |
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Civilization -- African influences. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
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Other Form: |
9780520257504 |
ISBN |
9780520949539 (electronic book) |
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0520949536 (electronic book) |
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9780520944855 (electronic book) |
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0520944852 (electronic book) |
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128333187X |
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9781283331876 |
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0520269969 |
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9780520269965 |
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