Daughters of the Trade - Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

Pernille Ipsen is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and History at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

List of 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

About the author

By Pernille Ipsen

Summary

Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, Daughters of the Trade uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.

Product details

• Authors: Pernille Ipsen
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780812223958
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2395-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: The Early Modern Americas; The Early Modern Americas; Daughters of the Trade
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous