Slavery and reform in West Africa : toward emancipation in nineteenth-century Senegal and the Gold Coast / Trevor R. Getz.
Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: Inglés Series Western African studiesDetalles de publicación: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2004. Descripción: 278 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0821441833Tema(s): Esclavitud -- Senegal -- Historia | Esclavitud -- Ghana -- HistoriaClasificación CDD: 306.3/62/0966309034Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca de origen | Colección | Signatura | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras | Reserva de ítems |
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Monografías | 00. BIBLIOTECA CAMPUS DE ALGECIRAS | Centro de Documentación del Estrecho | CDE-326(66)/GET/sla (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | Disponible Ubicación en estantería | Bibliomaps® | 3745206566 |
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
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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