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.
| ISBN: | 9781107634718 |
| Publication date: | 20th March 2014 |
| Author: | Toby Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Kings College London Green |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 366 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
Slavery and abolition of slavery African history: pre-colonial period |
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.
The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589 features in the following genres: Slavery and abolition of slavery, African history: pre-colonial period
The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589 is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589 was written by Toby Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Kings College London Green and published by Cambridge University Press
The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589 has 366 pages
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