Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era

The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre...
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Author: Finn Fuglestad
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Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era by Fuglestad, Finn

Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era

$254.10

Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era

$254.10
Author: Finn Fuglestad
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, it was this coastline that witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relation-ship between Europeans and Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about? How was it all organised? And how did the locals react to the opportunities these new trading relations offered them? The Kingdom of Dahomey is usually cited as the Slave Coast's archetypical slave raiding and slave trading polity. An inland realm, it was a latecomer to the slave trade, and simply incorporated a pre-existing system by
dint of military prowess, which ultimately was to prove radically counterproductive. Fuglestad's book seeks to explain the Dahomean 'anomaly' and its impact on the Slave Coast's societies and polities.


Author: Finn Fuglestad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 500
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780190876104


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About the Author

Finn Fuglestad is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of eleven books including A History of Niger, 1850-1960.



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