The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 / Toby Green.
Yer Numarası
A.VIII/4147
ISBN
9781107014367 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
Reprinted.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2012.
Fiziksel Niteleme
xxvi, 333 s. : harita, tablo ; 24 cm.
Dizi
African studies
Genel Not
Sözlük s. xxi-xxvi.
İndeks s. 325-333.
İndeks s. 325-333.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografya s. 287-324.
Özet, vb.
"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 re-organization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond." -- Yayıncı.
