Carney, Judith A.

Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas

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African Diaspora Archaeology NewsletterVolume 13Issue 2 June 2010 Article 86-1-2010In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacyin the Atlantic WorldJudith A. CarneyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, carney@geog.ucla.eduRichard Nicholas RosomoffFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adanThis New Books is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in African DiasporaArchaeology Newsletter by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contactscholarworks@library.umass.edu.Recommended CitationCarney, Judith A. and Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas (2010) "In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World,"African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter: Vol. 13 : Iss. 2 , Article 8.Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol13/iss2/8New Book In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World By Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff University of California Press, Paperback 280 pp., 10 color illus., 10 photographs, 48 line illus. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25750-4, 2010.  Description from the Publisher:  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. 1Carney and Rosomoff: In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the AtlantPublished by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2010

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