The slave trade and culture in the Bight of Biafra an African society in the Atlantic world
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and ho...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Aro in the Atlantic context: expansion and shifts, 1600s-1807
- The trade diaspora in regional context: Aro commercial organization in the era of expansion, 1740-1850
- Culture formation in the trading frontier, c.1740-c.1850
- Household and market persons : deportees and society, c.1740-c.1850
- The slave trade, gender, and culture
- Cultural and economic change aftershocks