Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade / Boubacar Barry ; translated from the French by Ayi Kwei Armah.
"Taking as its subject the vast area covering the Senegal and Gambia river basins, this book explores the changing dynamics of regional and Atlantic trade, clashes between traditional African and emergent Muslim authorities, the slave trade and the colonial system, and current obstacles to the...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | African studies series ;
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Table of Contents:
- I. Senegambia from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century: a haven for incoming populations, a station for migrants on the move. 1. Senegambia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: dependence on the Sudan and the Sahara. 2. Social dynamics in Senegambia. 3. The Atlantic trading system and the reformation of Senegambian states from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. 4. The partition of the Senegambian coast in the seventeenth century
- II. Senegambia in the eighteenth century: the slave trade, ceddo regimes and Muslim revolutions. 5. The slave trade in the eighteenth century. 6. The strengthening of ceddo regimes in the eighteenth century. 7. Muslim revolutions in the eighteenth century.