The slave trade and culture in the Bight of Biafra : an African society in the Atlantic world /

"The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nwokeji, G. Ugo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Slave trade > Biafra, Bight of, Region > History.
Slavery > Biafra, Bight of, Region > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Social conditions.
Biafra, Bight of, Region > Social conditions
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Aro in the Atlantic context: expansion and shifts, 1600s-1807
  • The trade diaspora in regional context: Aro commercial organization in the era of expansion, 1740-1850
  • Culture formation in the trading frontier, c.1740-c.1850
  • Household and market persons : deportees and society, c.1740-c.1850
  • The slave trade, gender, and culture
  • Cultural and economic change aftershocks.

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