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Cannabis et al.: The Portmanteau Biota Concept Applied to an Enslaved Central African MigrationHistorian Alfred Crosby developed the concept of “portmanteau biota”—the organisms that accompany a human migration—to analyse European expansion in the Atlantic World. This concept has not been used to understand enslaved African migrations. I identify elements of the portmanteau biota of people whom slavers called “Congoes.” At least five other organisms accompanied these people from Central Africa: Cannabis , m…
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Royal Museum for Central Africaethnography, natural history and history museum in Tervuren, Belgium
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Chapter Economic and Social Aspects of the Trade of Luxury Goods between Africa and Europe: Ostrich FeatherIn Europe, in the Middle Ages, ostrich feathers were used for the decoration of military headgear, as a representation of the high lineage of the possessor and his military virtues. They were imported from the coasts of West Africa, from Egypt and Syria into Italian and Spanish ports and from there exported to England and continental Europe. Venice, at the end of the fourteenth century, began to color feathers and s…
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