Table of Contents

LIST 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

About the Author

Judith A. Carney is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning book Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Richard Nicholas Rosomoff is an independent writer.

Reviews

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