ISBN:
978-1-84701-213-5
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978-1-84701-215-9
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978-1-7874-4430-0 /eBook
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 290 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Western Africa Series
Keywords:
Atlantischer Raum Brasilien
;
Westafrika
;
Angola
;
Senegal
;
Sierra Leone
;
Ghana
;
Afrikaner
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Sklavenhandel, atlantischer
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte
;
Frau
;
Frau und sozialer Status
;
Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle
;
Heirat
;
Grundeigentum
;
Eigentum
;
Malinke
;
Akan
;
Welthandel
;
Migration
;
Booker, Hope [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the first time, the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its curtailment.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements - List of illustrations - Contributors -- Introduction - Mariana P. Candido and Adam Jones - Part One: Property -- 1. Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery: Women, Trade and Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790-1812 - Suzanne Schwarz -- 2. Women, Land and Power in the Lower Gambia River Region - Assan Sarr - 3. Women and Food Production: Agriculture, Demography and Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-century Catumbela - Esteban A. Salas - 4. Women's Material World In Nineteenth-Century Benguela - Mariana P. Candido - Part Two: Vulnerability - 5. Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660-1860 - Adam Jones - 6. Parrying Palavers: Coastal Akan Women and the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century - Natalie Everts - 7. To be Female and Free: Mapping Mobility and Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry and Abeokuta 1853-1865 - Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi - 8. Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence: Household and Identity in the Life and Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos - Kristin Mann - Part Three: Mobility - 9. From Child Slave to Madam Esperance: One Woman's Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675-1707 - Colleen E Kriger - 10. Writing the History of the Trans-African Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic - Lorelle Semley - 11. Spouses and Commercial Partners: Immigrant Men and Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831-1859 - Vanessa S. Oliveira - 12. Women, Family and Daily Life in Senegal's Nineteenth-century Atlantic Towns - Hilary Jones - Bibliography - Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 248 - 278
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Enthält eine Einführung und 12 Beiträge
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