Carney, Judith Ann <br/><br/>
In the shadow of slavery  : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world 
/ Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff 
 - Berkeley  : University of California Press  , c2009. 
 - xiv, 280 p., 8 p. of plates (col.)  : ill., maps  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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.  The authors 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520269965 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009015360 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blacks Ethobotany ----America----History<br/>Blacks Ethobotany ----Africa----History<br/>Slaves----America----History<br/>Medicinal plants----America----History<br/>Medicinal plants----Africa----History
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>America----Civilization----African influences
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E29.N3  / C375 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>581.6 CAR