Abson & Company - Slave Traders in Eighteenth- Century West Africa

This unique micro-history of the Absons charts the family's stewardship of a slave factory in Dahomey, their intermarriage with African neighbours, and their ultimate decline.

About the author

Stanley B. Alpern served in the US Navy in 1944-46, received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1947, and completed a master's degree at Columbia University. After six years as a New York Herald Tribune copy editor and twenty-two years with the US information Agency, including five in Africa, he retired to France in 1977 to write about precolonial West Africa. He is the author of Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey.

Summary

This unique micro-history of the Absons charts the family's stewardship of a slave factory in Dahomey, their intermarriage with African neighbours, and their ultimate decline.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Alpern, Stanley B. Alpern, Alpern Stanley B.
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781849049627
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-962-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, African History, West Africa, Slavery & abolition of slavery