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 New World Tropics 10. Memory Dishes of Africa's Botanical Legacy 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

"An important contribution to literature on the Columbian Exchange." -- Frederick Douglass Opie Agricultural History Review 20110510 "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 20100910 "A useful, entertaining, and exacting analysis of those theories and debates that have engaged economic historians for the last quarter-century." Technology And Culture 20120914 "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 20120301