Daughters of the Trade : Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast /
Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction. Severine's Ancestors
- Chapter 1. Setting Up
- Chapter 2. A Hybrid Position
- Chapter 3. "What in Guinea You Promised Me"
- Chapter 4. "Danish Christian Mulatresses"
- Chapter 5. Familiar Circles
- Epilogue. Edward Carstensen's Parenthesis
- Notes
- Note on Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.