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WHAT THE SLAVES ATE
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WHAT THE SLAVES ATE
Recollections of African American Foods
and Foodways from the Slave Narratives
HERBERT C. COVEY AND DWIGHT EISNACH
GREENWOOD PRESS
An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Santa Barbara, California
Denver, Colorado
Oxford, England
Copyright 2009 by Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Covey, Herbert C.
What the slaves ate : recollections of African American foods and foodways from the
slave narratives / Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–313–37497–5 (hard copy : alk. paper)—ISBN 978–0–313–37498–2
(ebook)
1. Slaves—Diet—United States—History. 2. African Americans—Food—History.
3. African American cookery—History. 4. Food—Social aspects—United States—
History. 5. Cookery, American—Southern style—History. 6. Slave
narratives—United States. I. Eisnach, Dwight. II. Title.
E443.C73 2009
390
.25—dc22
13 12 11 10 09 1 2 3 4 5
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