Description
Book SynopsisProvides an assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves who were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment.
Trade Review"[An] essential reading for anyone trying to understand the long-ignored interaction between environmental change, global commerce, natural knowledge, and slavery." Times Higher Education "An important contribution to literature on the Columbian Exchange." -- Frederick Douglass Opie Agricultural History Review "Shadow of Slavery is thorough, cogent, creative in its use of scarce historical materials, and beautifully illustrated with color plates." -- Susanne Freidberg Intl Journal Of African Historical Stds "Essential to any environmentally informed study of slavery in the Americas." Isle: Interdis Stds In Lit & Environ "This is a wonderful book, one I will recommend to colleagues, friends, and family alike." Common-Place "Groundbreaking... This informative and enjoyable book offers not your regular meat and potatoes, but collard greens, cornbread, and gumbo." -- Kellie Carter Jackson, Gonzaga University Jrnl African American Hist "A very readable account that envelops a sobering look at [the] slave trade." American Herb Assoc Newsletter "An engaging and compelling narrative that opens our eyes and awakens our palates... I highly recommend it to all." -- Henry John Drewal, University of Wisconsin Economic Botany
Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
1 / Food and the African Past
2 / African Plants on the Move
3 / African Food Crops and the Guinea Trade
4 / African Food and the Atlantic Crossing
5 / Maroon Subsistence Strategies
6 / The Africanization of Plantation Food Systems
7 / Botanical Gardens of the Dispossessed
8 / Guinea’s Plants and European Empire
9 / African Animals and Grasses in the NewWorld Tropics
10 / Memory Dishes of the African Diaspora
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
