TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carney,Judith Ann
AU  - Rosomoff,Richard Nicholas
TI  - In the shadow of slavery: Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world 
SN  - 9780520257504 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - E29.N3 C375 2009
U1  - 581.6/3097 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Ethnobotany
KW  - America
KW  - History
KW  - Africa
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Plants, Edible
KW  - Medicinal plants
KW  - Sklavenhandel
KW  - swd
KW  - Heilpflanzen
KW  - Einbürgerung (Biologie)
KW  - Essbare Pflanzen
KW  - Pflanzen
KW  - Ethnobotanik
KW  - Civilization
KW  - African influences
KW  - Amerika
KW  - Schwarze
N1  - 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
N2  - '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
ER  -