Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 - Green Toby
Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 - Green Toby The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth…
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Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 - Green Toby
The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade.
Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity, and the reorganization of ritual and social patterns. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable, and the consequences in Africa and