Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the eighteenth Century
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by George E. Brooks
Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the eighteenth Century FROM THE PUBLISHER Eurafricans in Western Africa follows the changes that took root in the eighteenth century when French and British colonial officials introduced European legal codes, and concludes with the onset of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, when suppression of the slave trade and expanding commerce in forest and agricultural commodities again transformed circumstances in western Africa.
SYNOPSIS This study of the social and commercial history of Western Africa focuses on generations of Europeans who traded, married, and died along the 1,500 kilometer stretch of coast from Senegal to Sierra Leone between 1500 and 1790. Brooks (history, Indiana U., Bloomington) examines the influence of visiting Portuguese traders and their Luso- African descendants who later contended with French, Dutch, and English rivals for trade in gold, ivory, textiles, and slaves. Topics include Portuguese, Luso-Africans, and European competitors; the evolution of "Nharaship" in Senegambia; and expanding slave-trading networks and the corruption of African social and cultural patterns. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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