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Author Bennett, Herman L

Title African Kings and Black Slaves : Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (171 pages)
Series The Early Modern Americas Ser
Early Modern Americas Ser
Contents Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1. Liberalism; Chapter 2. Mythologies; Chapter 3. Law; Chapter 4. Authority; Chapter 5. Histories; Chapter 6. Trade; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments
Summary Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as simple economic transactions: rather, according to Herman L. Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics
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Subject Slave trade-Political aspects-Atlantic Ocean Region-History-15th century
Slave trade-Political aspects-Atlantic Ocean Region-History-16th century
Africa, West-Relations-Portugal-History-15th century
Africa, West-Relations-Portugal-History-16th century
Portugal-Relations-Africa, West-History-15th century
Portugal-Relations-Africa, West-History-16th century
Power (Social sciences)-Africa, West-History-15th century
Power (Social sciences)-Africa, West-History-16th century
Power (Social sciences)-Portugal-History-15th century
Power (Social sciences)-Portugal-History-16th century
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812295498
0812295498