Article ID: CBB001420228

Talking Plants: Botany and Speech in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (2013)

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Using the topics of natural history and botanical research done in Jamaica during the eighteenth century, the article explores how such knowledge was translated in speech. It considers oral culture in the communication in science, historical geography, and the British Atlantic world. Topics considered include printed texts, science and imperialism, the cross-cultural communication of traditional ecological knowledge, and slavery. The relationship between Scottish doctor and Jamaican botanist William Wright and English naturalist and botanist Sir Joseph Banks is explored.

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Authors & Contributors
Rose, Edwin
Christina Harrison
Tchikine, Anatole
Mallipeddi, Ramesh
Cahalan, Sarah Burke
Newman, Brooke N.
Concepts
Botany
Imperialism
Colonialism
Slavery and slaves
Science and race
Gardens
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Atlantic world
Mozambique
Chesapeake Bay (North America)
West Indies
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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