1689, described a bean brought from Africa (Sloane, 1707-1725, vol. I, p. 176) that was round, white and with a black eye - an early reference to the blackeye pea. Sloane also mentioned the cultivation of pearl millet and sorghum in some of the 'Negro's Plantations' (Sloane, 1707-1725, vol. I, p. 105). In the Danish Caribbean, the eighteenth-century Moravian missionary C. G. A. Oldendorp noticed the callaloo greens (Amaranthus spp.) that enslaved Africans grew and added to their stews (Highfield and Barac, 1987, p. 660). Moravian missionaries in Dutch Guiana also left a record of crops planted by pacified maroons, and recent botanical research affirms that these crops are still being cultivated by their descendants in the twenty-first century. Among the seeds and cuttings of the crops that accompanied these fugitives from slavery were glaberrima rice, yams, bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea), pigeon peas, lablab (hyacinth) beans, long beans (Vigna unguiculata), malagueta pepper, hibiscus, okra, musk okra (Abelmoschus moschatus), watermelons (Citrullus lanatus), kola nuts (Cola acuminata), African cabbage (Cleome gynandra) and castor beans (Price, 1991, pp. 107-127; Van Andel, Van der Velden and Reijers, 2015).