In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world /
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 b...
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Berkeley [Calif.] :
University of California Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
