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In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff

By:

Carney, Judith Ann

Contributor(s):

Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press , c2009.Description: xiv, 280 p., 8 p. of plates (col.) : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:

9780520269965

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

581.6 CAR

LOC classification:

E29.N3 C375 2009

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.

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	581.6 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067472

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.

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.

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