African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Bennett Herman L.
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Bennett Herman L. As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small…
Specifikacia African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Bennett Herman L.
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Bennett Herman L.
As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler.In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L.
Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's