Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
5/5
()
About this ebook
In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.
Related to Slave Owners of West Africa
Related ebooks
Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Creole Nation: National Integration in Guinea-Bissau Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfrican American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509–1670 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRoutes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters on West Africa and the Slave Trade. Paul Erdmann Isert�s Journey to Guinea and the Carribean Islands in Columbis (178 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFreedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSweet Liberia, Lessons from the Coal Pot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life of Olaudah Equiano Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaroons in Guyane: Past, Present, Future Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square: Kongo Dances and the Origins of the Mardi Gras Indians Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRoot and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinal Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An American Color: Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiberia: Where Do We Go From Here?: A Political, Sociological, Educational and Spiritual Review of the Liberian People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Radical Humanism and Generous Tolerance: Soyinka on Religion and Human Solidarity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOfficial Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurviving Slavery in the British Caribbean Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Social Science For You
Men Explain Things to Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Close Encounters with Addiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lonely Dad Conversations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Slave Owners of West Africa
1 rating0 reviews