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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.

Black people --- Enslaved persons --- Ethnobotany --- Plants, Edible --- Medicinal plants --- History. --- America --- Civilization --- African influences. --- africa. --- african american history. --- african dispora. --- african history. --- african plants. --- african slaves. --- agriculture history. --- agriculture. --- asian long bean. --- atlantic slave trade. --- black history. --- coca cola. --- coffee. --- environmental history. --- food and cooking. --- food and culture. --- food history. --- food justice. --- food plots. --- food studies. --- foodways. --- herbal. --- millet. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- okra. --- palmolive. --- plantation. --- race. --- slave food. --- slave ships. --- slave trade. --- slavery. --- slaves. --- sorghum. --- transatlantic slave trade. --- watermelon. --- west africa. --- worcestershire sauce.