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AFRICAN RICE IN THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2002

JUDITH A. CARNEY
JUDITH A. CARNEY
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

Most studies of the Columbian Exchange have not appreciated the significance of Africans in establishing plant domesticates in the Americas. African plants traversed the Atlantic as provisions aboard slave ships and slaves proved instrumental in their establishment in the New World as preferred food staples. This paper identifies the diverse crops domesticated in Africa, the intercontinental plant exchanges between Africa and Asia that occurred in the millennia before the Columbian Exchange and the role of African indigenous knowledge in establishing rice in the Americas.

Keywords

Western Africaagricultureslave trade
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of African History , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , February 2001 , pp. 377 - 396
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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