By James D La Fleur
As most folks in Atlantic-era West Africa as in modern Europe and the Americas have been farmers, fields and gardens have been the first terrain the place they engaged the possibilities and demanding situations of nascent globalization. Agricultural alterations and culinary cross-currents from the Gold Coast point out that Africans engaged the Atlantic international no longer with passivity yet as complete companions with others on continents whose histories have loved longer, and larger, scholarly recognition. crucial seeds of switch will not be to be present in the DNA of vegetation and critters carried around the seas yet as an alternative within the creativity and innovation of the folks who engaged the demanding situations and possibilities of the Atlantic World."
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A description of 38 chapter two rocks and roots that would make the tubers difficult to unearth intact and unscarred, and planted cuttings from a variety of their preferred types of improved yams. 62 With planting completed, garden cultivators then monitored and weeded their garden yams throughout the rains. 63 When the rains stopped and it was decided that yams were completely mature (some signs were completely visible, for example by checking the withering vine), they began to harvest their yams.
Moreover they could grow the crop on soils too exhausted or too poor for any other crop, thereby alleviating the need for (male) labor to prepare new gardens. Although many varieties of cassava were introduced from the Americas, local farmers (probably women, as it was a crop disparaged by men) selected against the higher-yielding types that required more work to remove its potent toxins. Women preferred the ‘sweeter,’ less poisonous varieties that they could prepare into edible food more easily.
This study prompts a serious reappraisal of Atlantic models (notably Crosby’s and Diamond’s crop- and animal-structured notions, seen also in earlier Africanist historiography) in rigorously historical terms— that is, as humanistic change. Or, in another phrasing, scholars should revise their understandings of Africans’ engagements with the Atlantic world from mechanistic ‘adoption’ to reveal the considered and contested adaptations by Africans living amid longer-term rhythms of change and long-standing involvement with inter-regional systems of human communities.