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The African Diaspora Garden: Plants That Survived and Plants That Were Lost

The specific plants that survived the Middle Passage and the specific plants that were lost represent two parallel stories of the African culinary diaspora. The plants that survived (okra, black-eyed peas, sesame, watermelon, sorghum) did so through the specific efforts of enslaved people who carried seeds, maintained provision grounds, and preserved botanical knowledge across generations. The plants that were lost (specific African grain varieties, specific African legume varieties, specific African aromatic plants) represent the culinary losses of the forced diaspora.

Overview

The botanical survivors and the botanical losses of the African diaspora.

Source

AFRICA TO AMERICA — SLAVE TRADE CULINARY ROUTES: WA3 CONTINUATION

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

Indigenous North American seed sovereignty movement (same principle — recovering lost crop varieties as cultural reclamation), Andean potato preservation (same botanical preservation of cultural ident