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In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world
- Title
- In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff.
- Author
- Carney, Judith Ann.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
- Description
- xiv, 280 p., 7 p. of plates (col.) : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Black people > Ethnobotany > Africa > History
- Black people > Ethnobotany > America > History
- Plants, Edible > Africa > History
- Slaves > America > History
- Medicinal plants > America > History
- Ethnobotany > Africa > History
- America > Civilization > African influences
- Plants, Edible > America > History
- Medicinal plants > Africa > History
- Ethnobotany > America > History
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 10-156
- ISBN
- 9780520257504 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520257502 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009015360
- OCLC
- 317461903
- 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.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
- Added Author
- Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 10-156