Slavery and reform in West Africa : toward emancipation in nineteenth-century Senegal and the Gold Coast
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Slavery and reform in West Africa : toward emancipation in nineteenth-century Senegal and the Gold Coast
（Western African studies）
Ohio University Press , J. Currey, 2004
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Bibliography: p. 235-250
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: us ISBN 9780821415207
内容説明
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed.
In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in West Africa was forged. With distant metropoles unable to intervene in daily affairs, local European administrators, striving to balance abolitionist pressures against the resistance of politically and economically powerful local slave owners, sought ways to satisfy the latter while placating or duping the former.
The result was an alliance between colonial officials, company agents, and slave-owning elites that effectively slowed, sidetracked, or undermined serious attempts to reform slave holding. Although slavery was outlawed in both regions, in only a few isolated instances did large-scale emancipations occur. Under the surface, however, slaves used the threat of self-liberation to reach accommodations that transformed the master-slave relationship.
By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, Slavery and Reform in West Africa reveals not only the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, but also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations. These findings have serious implications for the wider study of slavery and emancipation and for the history of Africa generally.
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: us, pbk ISBN 9780821415214
内容説明
A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed.
In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in West Africa was forged. With distant metropoles unable to intervene in daily affairs, local European administrators, striving to balance abolitionist pressures against the resistance of politically and economically powerful local slave owners, sought ways to satisfy the latter while placating or duping the former.
The result was an alliance between colonial officials, company agents, and slave-owning elites that effectively slowed, sidetracked, or undermined serious attempts to reform slave holding. Although slavery was outlawed in both regions, in only a few isolated instances did large-scale emancipations occur. Under the surface, however, slaves used the threat of self-liberation to reach accommodations that transformed the master-slave relationship.
By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, Slavery and Reform in West Africa reveals not only the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, but also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations. These findings have serious implications for the wider study of slavery and emancipation and for the history of Africa generally.
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: uk, pbk ISBN 9780852554449
内容説明
This work states that African slaves and slave owners played a central role both in the expansion of slavery and the reform of servile relationships.
Local elites resisted, diverted and appropriated metropolitan attempts to end or restrict access to and control of slaves. At the same time slaves were able to liberate themselves and take part in mass emancipations. The situationwas transformed by the introduction of new economic opportunities and politicisation and social change among slaves themselves.
North America: Ohio U Press
目次
Introduction - The era of the Atlantic slave trade & its impact - The crisis of abolition, legitimate trade & the adaptation of slavery - Rules & reality: ante-proclamation slavery & society on the Gold Coast - The Grand Experiment: emancipation in Senegal colony - Pragmatic policies in periods of expansion - Slaves & masters in the post-proclamation Gold Coast - Slaves & masters in French-administered Senegal - Toward the eradication of the overland slave trade - Conclusions: African continuity, adaptation & transformation.
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: uk, cloth ISBN 9780852554494
内容説明
Local elites resisted, diverted and appropriated metropolitan attempts to end or restrict access to and control of slaves. At the same time slaves were able to liberate themselves and take part in mass emancipations. The situationwas transformed by the introduction of new economic opportunities and politicisation and social change among slaves themselves.
目次
Introduction - The era of the Atlantic slave trade & its impact - The crisis of abolition, legitimate trade & the adaptation of slavery - Rules & reality: ante-proclamation slavery & society on the Gold Coast - The Grand Experiment: emancipation in Senegal colony - Pragmatic policies in periods of expansion - Slaves & masters in the post-proclamation Gold Coast - Slaves & masters in French-administered Senegal - Toward the eradication of the overland slave trade - Conclusions: African continuity, adaptation & transformation.
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