ISBN:
9781108989756
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
382.44099
Kurzfassung:
The Gift tells the story of one silver ceremonial sword offered as a gift by French traders to an African agent, and reveals how prestigious gifts shaped the trade of enslaved Africans. This compelling account will interest historians of slavery and material culture.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- The Atlantic Slave Trade on the Loango Coast -- Gifts in Cross-Cultural Exchanges -- Overview of Chapters -- 1 The Loango Coast and the Rise of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 1.1 African Agents of the Loango Coast -- 1.2 Loango's External Trade -- 1.3 The Trade in People on the Loango Coast -- 1.4 Gift Exchanges and the Mfuka's Role -- 1.5 Rising Trade, Emerging Divisions -- 2 La Rochelle and Atlantic Africa -- 2.1 A Hub of the French Trade in Enslaved Africans -- 2.2 Atlantic Trading Families -- 2.3 Outfitting Slaving Voyages -- 2.4 The Clan Garesché and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 2.5 Daniel Garesché and Jean-Amable Lessenne -- 2.6 French Slave Traders on the Loango Coast -- 3 Slave Traders Turned Pirates -- 3.1 Eighteenth-Century French Slave Ships on the Loango Coast -- 3.2 Le Montyon and L'Hirondelle Sail to the Loango Coast -- 3.3 Cabinda: A Port Always in Cabal -- 3.4 Garesché Seeks Restitution -- 3.5 Another Infamous Cabinda Affair -- 3.6 Competing French Slave Traders -- 4 Deciphering the Gift -- 4.1 Conceiving the Gift -- 4.2 The Silversmith -- 4.3 Value and Significance -- 4.4 Speaking in Many Tongues -- 4.5 Changing bimpaba -- 4.6 A Cross-Cultural Speaking Object -- 5 A Displaced Gift -- 5.1 Insignias and the Dead -- 5.2 Grandpré, the Slave Trader -- 5.3 French Slave Traders in the Bight of Benin -- 5.4 The Rise of Porto-Novo -- 5.5 Between the Loango Coast and the Bight of Benin -- 5.6 The End of the French Slave Trade -- 6 Ngoyo Meets Dahomey -- 6.1 Destination Abomey -- 6.2 Distributing Wealth during the Annual Customs -- 6.3 Dahomey's Cosmopolitan Material Culture -- 6.4 Similarities between Woyo and Fon Insignias -- 6.5 Fon Silver.
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