In the shadow of slavery [electronic resource] : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff.
Publication details: Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011.Description: xiii, 296 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s):- 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
- 581.6/3097 22
- E29.N3 C375 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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