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

ISBN-13: 9780521440837 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 268 str.

James F. Searing; David Anderson; Carolyn Brown

Opis

The author shows how the societies of West Africa were transformed by the slave trade. The growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within the region, with slaves working in the river and coasting trades or producing surplus grain to feed slaves in transit. A few held pivotal positions in the political structure of the coastal kingdoms of Senegambia. This local slave system had far-reaching consequences, leading to religious protest and slave rebellions. The changes in agricultural production fostered an ecological crisis.

Recenzje

"...the book occupies a major niche in African and Atlantic history, as well as the more specialized field of Senegambian history, and will have a long scholarly life." David Eltis, The Northern Mariner

Spis treści

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.