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The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into
bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to
the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "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. 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. In this exciting, original, and
groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
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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