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Author Carney, Judith Ann.

Title In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff.

Publication Info. Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011.

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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
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Subject Black people -- Ethnobotany -- America -- History.
Black people -- Ethnobotany.
America.
History.
Black people.
Black people -- Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History.
Africa.
Enslaved persons -- America -- History.
Enslaved persons.
Ethnobotany -- America -- History.
Ethnobotany.
Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History.
Plants, Edible -- America -- History.
Plants, Edible -- Africa -- History.
Medicinal plants -- America -- History.
Medicinal plants -- Africa -- History.
America -- Civilization -- African influences.
Civilization.
Plants, Edible.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
Medicinal plants.
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Civilization -- African influences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
Other Form: 9780520257504
ISBN 9780520949539 (electronic book)
0520949536 (electronic book)
9780520944855 (electronic book)
0520944852 (electronic book)
128333187X
9781283331876
0520269969
9780520269965