عنوان

The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589 /

(Number (ISBN

1107014360

(Number (ISBN

9781107014367

Number

b519777

Title Proper

The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589 /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Toby Green

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxvi, 333 pages :

Other Physical Details

maps,

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

African studies ;

Volume Designation

118

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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

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Text of Note

"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 African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity, and the reorganization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable, and the consequences in Africa and beyond"--

Creoles-- Africa, West-- History

Slave trade-- Africa, West-- History

Slave trade-- America-- History

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Green, Toby,1974-

Date of Transaction

20111119121423.0

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rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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