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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africas Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780520269965
- Book Title
- In the Shadow of Slavery : Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science, Health & Fitness, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Botany, Plants / General, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Earth Sciences / Geography, Naturopathy, Africa / General, Black Studies (Global), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Historical
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods--millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example--are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots--"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"--became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520269969
ISBN-13
9780520269965
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102800139
Product Key Features
Book Title
In the Shadow of Slavery : Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Life Sciences / Botany, Plants / General, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Earth Sciences / Geography, Naturopathy, Africa / General, Black Studies (Global), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science, Health & Fitness, History, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"[An] essential reading for anyone trying to understand the long-ignored interaction between environmental change, global commerce, natural knowledge, and slavery."-- Times Higher Education, "An engaging and compelling narrative that opens our eyes and awakens our palates. . . . I highly recommend it to all."-- Economic Botany, An engaging and compelling narrative that opens our eyes and awakens our palates. . . . I highly recommend it to all., "A very readable account that envelops a sobering look at [the] slave trade."-- American Herb Assoc Newsletter, "Essential to any environmentally informed study of slavery in the Americas."-- Isle: Interdis Stds In Lit & Environ, Groundbreaking. . . . This informative and enjoyable book offers not your regular meat and potatoes, but collard greens, cornbread, and gumbo., Shadow of Slavery is thorough, cogent, creative in its use of scarce historical materials, and beautifully illustrated with color plates., "This is a wonderful book, one I will recommend to colleagues, friends, and family alike."-- Common-Place, [An] essential reading for anyone trying to understand the long-ignored interaction between environmental change, global commerce, natural knowledge, and slavery.
Lccn
2009-015360
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
581.63097
Lc Classification Number
E29.N3c38 2011
Table of Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 1 / Food and the African Past 2 / African Plants on the Move 3 / African Food Crops and the Guinea Trade 4 / African Food and the Atlantic Crossing 5 / Maroon Subsistence Strategies 6 / The Africanization of Plantation Food Systems 7 / Botanical Gardens of the Dispossessed 8 / Guinea's Plants and European Empire 9 / African Animals and Grasses in the NewWorld Tropics 10 / Memory Dishes of the African Diaspora NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Copyright Date
2011
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