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Carney, Judith Ann.

In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. - xiv, 280 p., 7 p. of plates (col.) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.

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.

'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.

ISBN: 9780520257504 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520257502 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009015360

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA978892 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015346676 Uk

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Blacks--Ethnobotany--History.--America
Blacks--Ethnobotany--History.--Africa
Slaves--History.--America
Ethnobotany--History.--America
Ethnobotany--History.--Africa
Plants, Edible--History.--America
Plants, Edible--History.--Africa
Medicinal plants--History.--America
Medicinal plants--History.--Africa
Sklavenhandel
Heilpflanzen
Einbürgerung (Biologie)
Essbare Pflanzen
Pflanzen
Ethnobotanik

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
America--Civilization--African influences
Amerika
Schwarze

LC Class. No.: E29.N3 / C375 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 581.6/3097

National Agricultural Library Call No.: GT2583.A44 / C38 2009