African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic

Herman L. Bennett

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2018

African Kings and Black Slaves

Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic

Herman L. Bennett

In the series The Early Modern Americas

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295498

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Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as simple economic transactions: rather, according to Herman L. Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics.

Author / Editor information

Herman L. Bennett is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico and Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640.

Reviews

"African Kings and Black Slaves centers the histories of peoples of African descent in the grand tale of imperial conquest and power and thereby challenges the dominant narrative that colonial slavery has timelessly been about freedom. Herman Bennett is especially sensitive to the multisited nature of the contests set in motion by colonial encounters."—Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Herman L. Bennett's indispensable study alerts us to the political and intellectual consequences of flattening the history of Europe's relations with Africa by overlooking the Iberian experience. He ably shows how recuperating the notion of African sovereignty, abundantly recognized in early exchanges, can fundamentally change our understanding of African polities and African subjects."—Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles

"An immensely thought-provoking book. In his sophisticated reconsideration of late-medieval European characterizations of sub-Saharan Africans, Herman L. Bennett troubles the traditional account of the rise of the West."—David Wheat, Michigan State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Liberalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Chapter 2. Mythologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
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Chapter 5. Histories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: American History; African-American Studies; African Studies; American Studies; European History; World History

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Published: September 10, 2018
ISBN: 9780812295498