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Carney, Judith Ann.

In the shadow of slavery Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / [electronic resource] : Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. - Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011. - xiii, 296 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

ISBN:

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Blacks--Ethnobotany--History.--America
Blacks--Ethnobotany--History.--Africa
Slaves--History.--America
Ethnobotany--History.--America
Ethnobotany--History.--Africa
Plants, Edible--History.--America
Plants, Edible--History.--Africa
Medicinal plants--History.--America
Medicinal plants--History.--Africa

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
America--Civilization--African influences.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E29.N3 / C375 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 581.6/3097