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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.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  581.63097 C217i 2009    ---  Available
Description xiv, 280 p., 7 p. of plates (col.) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography 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 Africa's botanical legacy.
Summary 'In the Shadow of Slavery' explores the wealth of plantlife brought to the Americas by slaves & slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage & bedding, & afterwards cultivated in garden plots. These included coffee, watermelon & okra, as well as the constituents of many well known products.
Subject Blacks -- Ethnobotany -- America -- History.
Blacks -- Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History.
Slaves -- America -- History.
Ethnobotany -- America -- History.
Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History.
Plants, Edible -- America -- History.
Plants, Edible -- Africa -- History.
Medicinal plants -- America -- History.
Medicinal plants -- Africa -- History.
America -- Civilization -- African influences
Added Author Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
ISBN 9780520257504 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520257502 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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