Jori Lewis is an award-winning independent writer, editor
Jori Lewis writes about the environment and agriculture mostly from the Global South. In 2018, she received the prestigious Whiting Grant for Creative Nonfiction for her book, Slaves for Peanuts. She is also the editor in chief of Adi Magazine, a literary magazine of global politics. Jori Lewis splits her time between Chicago and Senegal.
INTRODUCING
Slaves for Peanuts
Recent Publications
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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