Theola Walden Baker wrote:

 >Cassava isn't native to Africa.  It's a New World food that was imported
 >there (along with potato) from the Americas during the very early slave
 >trade era.

Cassava got much display in the museums. The staple of the Carib people.

 > It requires much processing to be made edible/nutritious--i.e.,
 >get rid of the cyanogenic glucosides and phytates.

On Dominica they have the largest Carib population. In their museum they
had a display of their basket wares and it included the long basket tube
they use to squeeze the toxins out of cassava.

The Caribs also grew many other foods, plus cotton. They spread bananas
over all their islands. They ate a lot of crabs, both land and sea.

Don.