TY  - BOOK
AU  - Getz,Trevor R.
TI  - Slavery and reform in West Africa: toward emancipation in nineteenth-century Senegal and the Gold Coast 
T2  - Western African studies
SN  - 0821441833
U1  - 306.3/62/0966309034 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Esclavitud
KW  - Senegal
KW  - Historia
KW  - Ghana
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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 goods" and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed.  In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in Wes
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