In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world
Provides an assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves who were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment.
eBook, English, 2011
University of California Press, Berkeley [Calif.], 2011
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1 Online-Ressource
9780520949539, 9781283331876, 0520949536, 128333187X
1011678393
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1 / Food and the African Past 2 / African Plants on the Move 3 / African Food Crops and the Guinea Trade 4 / African Food and the Atlantic Crossing 5 / Maroon Subsistence Strategies 6 / The Africanization of Plantation Food Systems 7 / Botanical Gardens of the Dispossessed 8 / Guinea’s Plants and European Empire 9 / African Animals and Grasses in the NewWorld Tropics 10 / Memory Dishes of the African Diaspora NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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