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The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589

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The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 - Green, Toby
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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 ...

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The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 2014, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107634718

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The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107014367

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