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_aNwokeji, G. Ugo. _9821536 |
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_aThe slave trade and culture in the Bight of Biafra : _ban African society in the Atlantic world / _cG. Ugo Nwokeji. |
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_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010. |
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_axxiv, 279 p. ; _c24 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 8 | _aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The Aro in the Atlantic context: expansion and shifts, 1600s-1807; 3. The trade diaspora in regional context: commercial organization in the era of expansion, 1740-1850; 4. Culture formation in the trading frontier, c.1740-c.1850; 5. Household and market persons: deportees and society, c.1740-c.1850; 6. The slave trade, gender, and culture; 7. Cultural and economic change after the overseas slave trade era; 8. Summary and conclusions. | |
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_a"The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and how such large-scale commerce developed in the absence of large-scale centralized states. The result is the first study to link the structure and trajectory of the slave trade in a major exporting region to the expansion of a specific African merchant group - among other fresh insights into Atlantic Africa's involvement in the trade - and the most comprehensive treatment of Atlantic slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. The fundamental role of culture in the organization of trade is highlighted, transcending the usual economic explanations in a way that complicates traditional generalizations about work, domestic slavery, and gender in pre-colonial Africa"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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_aSlave trade _zBiafra, Bight of, Region _xHistory. _9821537 |
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_aSlavery _zBiafra, Bight of, Region _xHistory. _9821538 |
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_aBiafra, Bight of, Region _xSocial conditions. _9821539 |
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