West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade : archaeological perspectives

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West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade : archaeological perspectives

edited by Christopher R. DeCorse

(New approaches in anthropological archaeology)

Leicester University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This volume surveys archaeological data from West Africa, examining sites ranging from the Senegambia to the Cameroon, focusing on data from about 1500. The researched material provides information for evaluating both change and continuity in African societies.

Table of Contents

  • Tools for understanding transformation and continuity in Senegambian society, 1500-1900
  • historical process and the impact of the Atlantic trade on Banda, Ghana, 1800-1920
  • the effects of the slave trade on the Bassar Ironworking Society, Togo
  • change and continuity in Coastal Benin
  • Bornu - history and archaeology of an empire in the central 'bilad el-sudan
  • state formation and enslavement in the Southern Lake Chad Basin
  • 500 years in the Cameroons - making sense of the archaeology record
  • an Americanist perspective on African archaeology - towards and archaeology of the Black Atlantic.

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