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" Slave traders by invitation : "
Finn Fuglestad.
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BL
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873386
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Fuglestad, Finn,1942-
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Slave traders by invitation : : West Africa's slave coast in the precolonial era /\ Finn Fuglestad.
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New York, NY, United States of America :: Oxford University Press,, [2018]
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1 online resource (xiv, 443 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations, maps
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0190934751
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: 0190943114
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: 9780190934750
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: 9780190943110
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9780190876104
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Abstract
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A frank reassessment of agency in the West African slave trade, exposing how local polities, not European interlopers, called the shots.
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The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, it was this coastline that witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relation-ship between Europeans and Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about? How was it all organised? And how did the locals react to the opportunities these new trading relations offered them? The Kingdom of Dahomey is usually cited as the Slave Coast's archetypical slave raiding and slave trading polity. An inland realm, it was a latecomer to the slave trade, and simply incorporated a pre-existing system by dint of military prowess, which ultimately was to prove radically counterproductive. Fuglestad's book seeks to explain the Dahomean 'anomaly' and its impact on the Slave Coast's societies and polities. -- Publisher description.
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Slave trade-- Africa, West-- History.
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Slave traders-- Africa, West-- History.
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Slave traders-- Europe-- History.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Slave trade.
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Slave traders.
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Slavery.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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West Africa.
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306.3/620966
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HT1332.F84 2018
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