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.