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Slavery and Reform in West Africa : Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens, OH :
Ohio University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Western African studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.