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The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589
"The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589 / Toby Green |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
, cop. 2012 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XXVI-333 p.) |
| Collection : | African studies series ; 118 |
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- Part I. The Development of an Atlantic Creole Culture in Western Africa, c. 1300-1500
- Culture, trade, and diaspora in pre-Atlantic West Africa
- The formation of early Atlantic societies in Senegambia and Upper Guinea
- The settlement of Cabo Verde and early signs of Creolization in Western Africa
- The new Christian diaspora in Cabo Verde and the rise of a Creole culture in Western Africa
- The new Christian/Kassanke alliance and the consolidation of Creolization Part II. Creolization and Slavery: Western Africa and the Pan-Altlantic, c. 1492-1589 6. The early Trans-Atlantic slave trade from Western Africa
- Trading ideas and trading people: the boom in the contraband trade from Western Africa, c. 1550-1580
- Cycles of war and trade in the African Atlantic, c. 1550-1580
- Creole societies and the pan-Atlantic in late sixteenth-century Western Africa and America; Part III Conclusion
- Lineages, societies, and the slave trade in Western Africa to 1589