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1 Online-Ressource (226 p)
ISBN:
9780718502478
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury academic collections. The history of the Transatlantic slave trade
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Notes -- Preface to the 2016 Edition -- 1 Introduction -- West Africa before the Europeans -- The Atlantic trade -- Continuities and transformations -- References -- 2 Tools for Understanding Transformation and Continuity in Senegambian Society: 1500-1900 -- Archaeology -- Processes of change in the Falemme: AD 500-1900, by Ibrahima Thiaw -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- 3 Historical Process and the Impact of the Atlantic Trade on Banda, Ghana, c 1800-1920
Content:
Banda and its involvement in the Atlantic trade -- The internal slave trade in the nineteenth century -- The colonial market economy -- The effects on local life: insights from Makala Kataa -- Chronology and classification -- The ceramic assemblage at Makala Kataa -- The effects of the Atlantic trade and implications for diaspora studies -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 The Effect of the Slave Trade on the Bassar Ironworking Society, Togo -- Introduction -- The Bassar region -- Culture history -- Later Iron Age technology -- The rise of large-scale production
Content:
Effects of large-scale production on Bassar society -- The rise of long-distance trade -- The advent of Dacjomba and Tyokossi slave raiding -- Dagomba -- Tyokossi -- The impact of the slave trade on Bassar society -- Effect on settlement and demography -- Iron production and exchange -- Pottery production and exchange -- Bassar under colonial rule -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Change and Continuity in Coastal Benin -- Introduction -- Physical setting -- Sources of information -- Historic documents: traders, captains, merchants, and administrators -- Ethnographic information -- Recent histories
Content:
The cultural setting of the Slave Coast from 1500 to 1670 -- The historic setting of Savi -- Current research -- Material culture of Savi and Ouidah -- Figurines -- Beads -- Organics -- Architecture -- Stone artifacts -- Metals -- Tobacco pipes -- Settlement pattern -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Kanem-Bomo: A Brief Summary of the History and Archaeology of an Empire of the Central bilad al-sudan -- The setting: the Central bilad al-sudan -- The rise of Kanem-Borno -- The riddle of the early capitals -- At the equinox of power: the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
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Birni Gazargamo, Gambaru, and other sites in the Yobe valley -- The archaeological visibility of imperial expansion: the pottery sequences of the settlement mounds in the southern Chad Basin -- The dawn: The Fulani jihad and then ineteenth century -- Kukawa -- The aftermath: Rabeh and the colonial powers -- Dikwa -- An outlook: possibilities and prospects for Historical Archaeology in the central bilad al-sudan -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7 State Formation and Enslavement in the Southern Lake Chad Basin -- Introduction -- The southern Lake Chad Basin to the sixteenth century
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Archaeological data
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474291057
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780718502478
Additional Edition:
Print version DeCorse, Christopher West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade : Archaeological Perspectives London : Bloomsbury Publishing,c2016 ISBN 9780718502478
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English
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