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Author Getz, Trevor R., author

Title Slavery and Reform in West Africa : Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
Published Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Series Western African Studies
Western African studies.
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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Subject Slavery -- Senegal -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Senegal
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Ghana
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- General.
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Abschaffung
Sklaverei
Slavernij.
Ghana
Senegal
Goldküste
Senegal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821441831
0821441833