Jori Lewis is an award-winning independent writer and editor
Jori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments, focusing primarily on the intersections between nature, history, and culture.
INTRODUCING
A Natural History of the Spirits
A Natural History of the Spirits offers profound meditations on the history of colonialism, racism, and social and ecological change, exploring such wide-ranging subjects as the reproduction crisis of the long-lived African baobab tree in the face of climate change; the threatened marine gastropods whose shells have both mystical and monetary meaning; the evolutionary history of the watermelon and how racist stereotypes related to it developed and persist in the United States; the disquieted spirits of the Senegalese island Sangomar in the wake of new oil and gas exploration in the area; and how, by observing the habits of the yellow gardenia, we may more deeply understand how we create home.
Slaves for Peanuts
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Slaves for Peanuts: Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom. Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions. Author Jori Lewis reveals how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century, long after the European powers had officially banned it in the territories they controlled.
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