Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Western African Studies |
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Western African studies.
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Contents |
Maps; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade; 2 The Crisis of Abolition, Legitimate Trade, and the Adaptation of Slavery; 3 Rules and Reality; 4 The Grand Experiment; 5 Pragmatic Policies in Periods of Expansion; 6 Slaves and Masters in the Postproclamation Gold Coast; 7 Slaves and Masters in French-Administered Senegal; 8 Toward the Eradication of the Overland Slave Trade?; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed. In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and Br |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Subject |
Slavery -- Senegal -- History -- 19th century
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Slavery -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Senegal
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Ghana
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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Abschaffung
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Sklaverei
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Slavernij.
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Ghana
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Senegal
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Goldküste
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Senegal
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780821441831 |
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0821441833 |
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