In the shadow of slavery [electronic resource] : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff.
Carney, Judith Ann.; Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
2009
E29.N3 C38 2009eb
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Title In the shadow of slavery [electronic resource] : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff.
Author Carney, Judith Ann.
ISBN 9780520944855 (electronic bk.)
9780520257504
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 280 p., [8] p. of plates (col.)) : ill., maps.
Call Number E29.N3 C38 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 581.6/3097
Summary '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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Awards Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University, Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Added Author Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
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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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