Plants featured in "Seeds of Survival and Celebration"

Click on each plant below to explore their connection to enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas.

Okra

Abelmoschus esculentus

Collard Greens

Brassica oleracea

Fish Pepper

Capsicum annuum ‘Fish Pepper’

African Bird’s-eye pepper

Capsicum frutescens ‘African Bird’s Eye’

Watermelon

Citrullus lanatus 'Sugar Baby Bush'

Taro

Colocasia esculentis

Cotton

Gossypium hirsutum

Indigo

Indigofera tinctoria

Sweet potato

Ipomoea batatas

Tobacco

Nicotiana tabacum

African Rice

Oryza glaberrima

Carolina Gold Rice

Oryza sativa 'Carolina Gold'

Pearl Millet

Pennisetum glaucum

Sugar cane

Saccharum officinarum

Gboma Eggplant

Solanum macrocarpon

Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor

Black-eyed Pea

Vigna unguiculata

Corn

Zea mays 'Orchard baby sweet corn'