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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780520269965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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 foodsmillet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the Asian long bean, for exampleare native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola,...
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in gre...
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Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
ISBN: 9780674008342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the eighteenth century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the black slaves who worked them had created one of the most profitable economies in the world. Black Rice tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through... Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in... |
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