ISBN:
0821441833
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9780821441831
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Series Statement:
Western African studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Getz, Trevor R . Slavery and Reform in West Africa : Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
DDC:
306.3620966309034
Keywords:
1800 - 1899
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Slavery / Ghana / History / 19th century
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Slavery / Senegal / History / 19th century
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Slaves / Emancipation / Ghana
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Slaves / Emancipation / Senegal
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Slavery
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Slaves / Emancipation
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Geschichte
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Sklaverei
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Slavery History 19th century
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Slavery History 19th century
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Slaves Emancipation
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Slaves Emancipation
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Abschaffung
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Sklaverei
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Senegal
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Ghana
;
Ghana
;
Sklaverei
;
Abschaffung
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Senegal
;
Sklaverei
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Abschaffung
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Description / Table of Contents:
Maps; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade; 2 The Crisis of Abolition, Legitimate Trade, and the Adaptation of Slavery; 3 Rules and Reality; 4 The Grand Experiment; 5 Pragmatic Policies in Periods of Expansion; 6 Slaves and Masters in the Postproclamation Gold Coast; 7 Slaves and Masters in French-Administered Senegal; 8 Toward the Eradication of the Overland Slave Trade?; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed. In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and Br
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