# High on the Hog
## Metadata
- Author:: [[Jessica B. Harris]]
- Full Title:: High on the Hog
- Category: #books
## Highlights
> We are a race that never before existed: a cobbled-together admixture of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. We are like no others before us or after us. Involuntarily taken from a homeland, molded in the crucible of enslavement, forged in the fire of disenfranchisement, and tempered by migration, we all too often remain strangers in the only land that is ours. ([Location 63](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=63))
> 1700s, most likely from the Caribbean, where it has a long history. Colonial Americans ate it, and by 1748 the pod was used in Philadelphia, where it is still an ingredient in some variants of the Philadelphia gumbo known as pepperpot. ([Location 287](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=287))
> Our American word okra comes from the Igbo language of Nigeria, where the plant is referred to as okuru. It is the French word for okra, gombo, that resonates with the emblematic dishes of southern Louisiana known as gumbo. Although creolized and mutated, the word gumbo harks back to the Bantu languages, in which the pod is known as ochingombo or guingombo. ([Location 290](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=290))
> They returned to the northern part of their native hemisphere complete with an African name that derived from the Bantu word nguba, meaning “groundnut”—goober. So we’re all celebrating Africa when we’re eating goober peas. ([Location 317](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=317))
> signares (from the Portuguese senhora). These women, with European names like Caty Louette, Victoria Albir, and Anne Pépin, were members of Gorée’s mulatto elite, which had developed from centuries of intermingling between Africans and Europeans. The signares bridged the worlds of Africa ([Location 365](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=365))
> They had survived the Middle Passage that was the birth canal of African Americans. ([Location 398](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=398))
> Much ink flowed during the period of enslavement on how to feed the slaves inexpensively with foods that they would eat. ([Location 454](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=454))
> Refusal of food occurred in numbers great enough to necessitate the invention by slavers of the speculum oris, a diabolical three-pronged screw device designed to force open the mouths of the stubborn so that they could be force-fed with a funnel. ([Location 534](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=534))
> The power of no. This first step in the resistance would be used again and again throughout the period of enslavement. ([Location 537](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=537))
# High on the Hog
## Metadata
- Author:: [[Jessica B. Harris]]
- Full Title:: High on the Hog
- Category: #books
## Highlights
> We are a race that never before existed: a cobbled-together admixture of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. We are like no others before us or after us. Involuntarily taken from a homeland, molded in the crucible of enslavement, forged in the fire of disenfranchisement, and tempered by migration, we all too often remain strangers in the only land that is ours. ([Location 63](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=63))
> 1700s, most likely from the Caribbean, where it has a long history. Colonial Americans ate it, and by 1748 the pod was used in Philadelphia, where it is still an ingredient in some variants of the Philadelphia gumbo known as pepperpot. ([Location 287](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=287))
> Our American word okra comes from the Igbo language of Nigeria, where the plant is referred to as okuru. It is the French word for okra, gombo, that resonates with the emblematic dishes of southern Louisiana known as gumbo. Although creolized and mutated, the word gumbo harks back to the Bantu languages, in which the pod is known as ochingombo or guingombo. ([Location 290](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=290))
> They returned to the northern part of their native hemisphere complete with an African name that derived from the Bantu word nguba, meaning “groundnut”—goober. So we’re all celebrating Africa when we’re eating goober peas. ([Location 317](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=317))
> signares (from the Portuguese senhora). These women, with European names like Caty Louette, Victoria Albir, and Anne Pépin, were members of Gorée’s mulatto elite, which had developed from centuries of intermingling between Africans and Europeans. The signares bridged the worlds of Africa ([Location 365](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=365))
> They had survived the Middle Passage that was the birth canal of African Americans. ([Location 398](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=398))
> Much ink flowed during the period of enslavement on how to feed the slaves inexpensively with foods that they would eat. ([Location 454](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=454))
> Refusal of food occurred in numbers great enough to necessitate the invention by slavers of the speculum oris, a diabolical three-pronged screw device designed to force open the mouths of the stubborn so that they could be force-fed with a funnel. ([Location 534](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=534))
> The power of no. This first step in the resistance would be used again and again throughout the period of enslavement. ([Location 537](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004G5YX0I&location=537))