Publisher's Synopsis
The topic of this book is of deep historical importance because the issue of how to end hunger is still at the center of scientific and religious debate among thinkers worldwide. Three thousand years before the abolition of slavery, the Torah predicted the existence of a miraculous food that was capable of saving the lives of slaves during the decades of famine. Not once, not twice, but many times in history. The provision of manna or breadfruit for freed slaves was a legendary attempt to displace an abolitionist revolution derived from the knowledge of tropical botany. There has been much written on breadfruit and this is the first time that it is connected with the manna of the Exodus.
