Author: Friedrich August RamseyerPublisher:
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Category : Ashanti
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Four Years in Ashantee
Author: Friedrich August RamseyerPublisher:
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Category : Ashanti
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Author: Trevor R. GetzPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821441833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region’s role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of “legitimate goods” and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed. In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in West Africa was forged. With distant metropoles unable to intervene in daily affairs, local European administrators, striving to balance abolitionist pressures against the resistance of politically and economically powerful local slave owners, sought ways to satisfy the latter while placating or duping the former. The result was an alliance between colonial officials, company agents, and slave-owning elites that effectively slowed, sidetracked, or undermined serious attempts to reform slave holding. Although slavery was outlawed in both regions, in only a few isolated instances did large-scale emancipations occur. Under the surface, however, slaves used the threat of self-liberation to reach accommodations that transformed the master-slave relationship. By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, Slavery and Reform in West Africa reveals not only the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, but also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations. These findings have serious implications for the wider study of slavery and emancipation and for the history of Africa generally.
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante
Author: T. C. McCaskiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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The Golden Bough
Author: James George FrazerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
Negro Slave Songs In The United States
Author: Miles Mark FisherPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447483545
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This early work by Miles Mark Fisher is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the importance and meaning of slave songs in America. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all with an interest in slave music and the political history of the United States. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Methodist Quarterly Review
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Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record
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Category : Church work with the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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West African Narratives of Slavery
Author: Sandra E. GreenePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025322294X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Slavery in Africa existed for hundreds of years before it was abolished in the late 19th century. Yet, we know little about how enslaved individuals, especially those who never left Africa, talked about their experiences. Collecting never before published or translated narratives of Africans from southeastern Ghana, Sandra E. Greene explores how these writings reveal the thoughts, emotions, and memories of those who experienced slavery and the slave trade. Greene considers how local norms and the circumstances behind the recording of the narratives influenced their content and impact. This unprecedented study affords unique insights into how ordinary West Africans understood and talked about their lives during a time of change and upheaval.
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