Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139161688
1139161687
9781139016407
1139016407
1283342634
9781283342636
9781139157872
1139157876
9781107014367
1107014360
9781107634718
1107634717
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-324) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. 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. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity, and the reorganization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable, and the consequences in Africa and beyond"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Green, Toby, 1974- Rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107014367
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| Standard no.: | 40020067747
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