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The West African slave plantation : a case study
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative look at one piece of the historically significant Sokoto Caliphate.
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On trans-Saharan trails : Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange in nineteenth-century western Africa
This study examines the history and organisation of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders from the Wad Nun region, who specialised in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas and interviews with retired caravaners, Professor Lydon shows how traders used their literacy skills in Arabic and how they had recourse to experts of Islamic law to regulate their long-distance transactions. It also examines the strategies devised by women to participate in caravan trade.
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The Power to Name
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal, and in increasing numbers as the twentieth century progressed, they sent in letters, articles, fiction, and poetry for publication in English- and African-language newspapers. The Power to Name offers a rich cultural history of this phenomenon, examining the wide array of anonymous and pseudonymous writing practices to be found in African-owned newspapers between the 1880s and the 1940s, and the rise of celebrity journalism in the period of anticolonial nationalism. Stephanie Newell has produced an account of colonial West Africa that skillfully shows the ways in which colonized subjects used pseudonyms and anonymity to alter and play with colonial power and constructions of African identity.
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Tongnaab : the history of a West African god
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting
point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean
Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by
tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine,
Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains
of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman
and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and
practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events
in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist
agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of
ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern
nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at
the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade
to the tourist trade.
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West African warfare in Bahia and Cuba : soldier slaves in the Atlantic world, 1807-1844
\"Examines the extent to which a series of African-led plots and armed movements that took place in western Cuba and Bahia between 1807 and 1844 were the result--or a continuation--of events that had occurred in and around the Yoruba and Hausa kingdoms in the same period.\"--Book jacket
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USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast
Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating
museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global
power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard
boarded the Constellation as a seaman for what proved to
be a twenty-month voyage to the African coast, he began to compose
a remarkable journal.
Sailing from Boston, the Constellation, flagship of the
U.S. African Squadron, was charged with the interception and
capture of slave-trading vessels illegally en route from Africa to
the Americas. During the Constellation's deployment, the
squadron captured a record number of these ships, liberating their
human cargo and holding the captains and crews for criminal
prosecution. At the same time, tensions at home and in the squadron
increased as the American Civil War approached and erupted in April
1861.
Leonard recorded not only historic events but also fascinating
details about his daily life as one of the nearly 400-member crew.
He saw himself as not just a diarist, but a reporter, making
special efforts to seek out and record information about individual
crewmen, shipboard practices, recreation and daily routine-from
deck swabbing and standing watch to courts martial and dramatic
performances by the Constellation Dramatic Society.
This good-humored gaze into the lives and fortunes of so many
men stationed aboard a distinguished American warship makes
Gilliland's edition of Willie Leonard's journal a significant work
of maritime history.
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Barracoon : the story of the last \black cargo\
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. Based on those interviews, which feature Cudjo's unique vernacular, this book illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it.
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A Civilised Savagery
In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities.
A Civilized Savagery illuminates the multifaceted nature of British humanitarianism by juxtaposing campaigns against different forms of imperial labor exploitation in three separate areas: the Congo Free State, South Africa, and Portuguese West Africa. In doing so, Kevin Grant points out how this new type of humanitarianism influenced the transition from Empire to international government and the advent of universal human rights in subsequent decades.
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