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In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carney, Judith Ann
Other Authors: Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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 African diaspora.