In the Shadow of Slavery - Africas Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World Carney JudithPaperback
In the Shadow of Slavery - Africas Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World Carney JudithPaperback The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. In the Shadow of Slavery…
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In the Shadow of Slavery - Africas Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World Carney JudithPaperback
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. 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. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans.
In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. 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. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral
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