This week we continue our exploration of the history of bananas and plantains from where we left off last week in West Africa as they make their way accross the atlantic. This episode gets a little heavy but I hope that you take away a new understanding of these histories as well as an appreciation for the amazing foods that were born out of them. As always, I encourage any feedback and you can reach me on instagram @planetpantrypod on patreon under the same name or by email at nick@threetreeprovisions.  Behind all these stories are so many rabbit holes that anyone could spend hours diving down so I'm trying to include as many sources that I use in the production as possible. The character limit in this box limits me in this regard and I'm still getting used to recording every source that I use. But a list of everything that I remember to record is available on Patreon https://foodispower.org/our-food-choices/bananas/ https://afroculinaria.com/2016/10/05/crops-of-african-origin-or-african-diffusion-in-the-americas/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010169/black-and-slave-population-us-1790-1880/ https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/histstats-colonial-1970.pdf https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.9.964 http://www.unitedfruit.org/chron.htm https://www.geog.psu.edu/sites/www.geog.psu.edu/files/event/miller-lecture-coffee-hour-out-africa-food-legacies-atlantic-slavery-americas/carneychapter2africanethnobotanyintheamericas.pdf https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/11023/Political%20Inst%20Change%20MIR.pdf;jsessionid=40FCEA480728E84691C6833F9D7FFE16?sequence=3 http://mygoldrushtales.com/the-fraud-of-henry-meiggs/ https://www.berose.fr/article1413.html?lang=fr https://www.uptowncollective.com/2011/09/20/dr-travelogue-the-magnificent-mangu/ https://blog.amigofoods.com/index.php/dominican-foods-drinks/mangu-con-los-tres-golpes/ https://www.saborbrasil.it/en/ricettas/169 http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/banana/documents/Docs_Resources_2015/TR4/Panama-disease-FS.pdf