After tasks were done, the family's activities centered on home--cooking in the fireplace and making things together by the fire's light. Cooking supper and eating together were important to these families. | ||||||||||
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 Courtesy of the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia |
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Enslaved Africans brought sophisticated farming skills with them to the New World, and supplemented the rations given to them by the plantation owner by growing much of their own food. |
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Foods native to Africa, and now a part
of the American diet, include watermelon, okra, black-eyed peas, yams,
and sesame seeds.
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