ISBN:
0-19-820228-8
,
978-0-19-820228-8
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 376 Seiten
,
Karten
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in African Affairs
DDC:
306/.0966
Keywords:
Westafrika Benin
;
Dahomey
;
Ghana
;
Togo
;
Nigeria, Südwest
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Sklavenhandel, atlantischer
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Geschichte
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Historiographie
;
Bosman, Willem
;
Bosmann, Wilhelm 〉 Bosman, Willem
;
Bossmann, Wilhelm 〉 Bosman, Willem
;
Bosmann, Willem 〉 Bosman, Willem
;
Bosman, Wilhelm 〉 Bosman, Willem
;
Snelgrave, William
;
Snelgrave, Guillaume 〉 Snelgrave, William
Abstract:
This book studies the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the "Slave Coast" of West Africa, an area covering modern south-eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and south-western Nigeria. This region was one of the most important sources of slaves for the Atlantic slave trade, and its history provides an exceptionally well-documented illustration of the effect of the trade on the indigenous African societies of the Slave Coast. The expansion of slave exports during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries coincided with a period of political disorder, which ended with the rise of the new kingdom of Dahomey. Dahomey was a more militarized and more politically centralized state than those which preceded it in the region, and its distinctive character reflected the impact of the slace trade.This is the first detailed study of the early history of the Slave Coast for over twenty years. Robin Law examines the events which preceded the rise of Dahomey, the organization of the slave trade and its impact on the domestic economy, and the social and political structure of Dahomey and its predecessors. This is a meticulously researched, lucid, and scholarly analysis which makes an important contribution to the history both of early modern European expansion and of pre-colonial West Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Maps and Table -- Abbreviations -- Note on Dates -- Introduction: Historiography and Sources -- 1. Country and People -- 2. Economy and Society -- 3. Polity and Ideology -- 4. The Atlantic Slave Trade, I: The Development of European Enterprise -- 5. The Atlantic Slave Trade, II: The Operation and Impact of the Trade -- 6. The Decline of Allada, 1671-1720 -- 7. The Rise of Dahomey, 1720-1734 -- 8. The Consolidation of Dahomey, 1734-1750 -- Conclusion: 'God Made War for All the World' -- Bibliography -- Index
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