UID:
almafu_9960118226902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-430-9
Series Statement:
Western Africa series
Content:
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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List of Illustrations --
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Contributors --
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Part One: Property --
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1 Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery Women, Trade & Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790–1812 --
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2 Women, Land & Power in the Lower Gambia River Region --
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3 Women & Food Production Agriculture, Demography & Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-Century Catumbela --
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4 Women’s Material World in Nineteenth-Century Benguela --
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Part Two: Vulnerability --
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5 Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660–1860 --
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6 Parrying Palavers Coastal Akan Women & the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century --
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7 To be Female & Free Mapping Mobility & Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry & Abẹokuta 1853–1865 --
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8 Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence Family, Household & Identity in the Life & Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos --
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Part Three: Mobility --
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9 From Child Slave to Madam Esperance One Woman’s Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675–1707 --
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10 Writing the History of the Trans-African Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic --
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11 Spouses & Commercial Partners Immigrant Men & Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831–1859 --
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12 Women, Family & Daily Life in Senegal’s Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Towns --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84701-213-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781787444300
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444300/type/BOOK
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