In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 280 p., 7 p. of plates (col.) : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780520257504 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520257502 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
- Geschichte
- Sklavenhandel
- Heilpflanzen
- Einbürgerung (Biologie)
- Essbare Pflanzen
- Pflanzen
- Ethnobotanik
- Amerika
- Schwarze
- 581.6/3097 22
- E29.N3 C375 2009
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Circulating Books | Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | Main Collection | E29.N3 C375 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3182700017323 |
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.