Slavery and Reform in West Africa

Released on by Trevor R. Getz
preview-18

  • Slavery and Reform in West Africa Book Detail

  • Author : Trevor R. Getz
  • Release Date : 2004-04-20
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 278
  • ISBN 13 : 0821441833
  • File Size : 64,64 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor R. Getz PDF Summary

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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Slavery and Reform in West Africa books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Slavery and Reform in West Africa

Slavery and Reform in West Africa

File Size : 72,72 MB
Total View : 5853 Views
DOWNLOAD

A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region’s rol

Fighting the Slave Trade

Fighting the Slave Trade

File Size : 75,75 MB
Total View : 8396 Views
DOWNLOAD

Annotation Explores in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlanti

Reconfiguring Slavery

Reconfiguring Slavery

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 4693 Views
DOWNLOAD

A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West Afric

From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce

From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce

File Size : 70,70 MB
Total View : 5881 Views
DOWNLOAD

This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic