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

  • Carney, Judith Ann.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Description

'In the Shadow of Slavery' explores the wealth of plant life brought to the Americas by slaves and slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage and bedding, and afterwards cultivated in garden plots. These included coffee, watermelon and okra, as well as the constituents of many well-known products.

Publication/Creation

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xiv, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates (color) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) 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 the Africa's diaspora.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AQ.1
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ISBN

  • 9780520257504
  • 0520257502
  • 9780520269965
  • 0520269969