West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce - The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860

Zusammenfassung Argues that growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal River Valley in the 18th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis l. Cosaan: 'the origins'; 2. Slavery and the slave trade in the Lower Senegal; 3. The Atlantic kingdom: maritime commerce and social change; 4. Merchants and slaves: slavery on Saint Louis and Gorée; 5. Famine, civil war, and secession, l750-l800; 6. From river empire to colony: Saint Louis and Senegal, l800-l860.

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• Authors: James F. Searing, James F. (University of Illinois Searing
• Assisted by: David Anderson (Editor), Carolyn Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.1993
• EAN: 9780521440837
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44083-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology