The years between 1680 and 1720 saw the intensification of the regional slave trade in West Africa. Previous scholarship has focused almost exclusively on Africans and Afro-descendants as brokers in the region, placing Europeans as Atlantic intermediaries. Europeans as Coastal Brokers in the West and West-Central African Slave Trade (1680-1720) argues that not only was European mediation in Africa deeply interwoven with endogenous trade networks, but also that it was eagerly desired by the powerful potentates of the hinterland as a means of increasing their political and economic power over the region. Examining the interconnected interests of coastal authorities and Europeans, this book demonstrates that Europeans were the key brokers in the diversification of slave trade routes to the shore.
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Höhe: 238 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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978-90-04-73093-9 (9789004730939)
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Ines Guarda, Ph.D. (2016), King's College London, is Lecturer of Instituto Camoes, I.P. and Coordinator of the Portuguese Language Center at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul (Republic of South Korea). She has conducted research on the Atlantic slave trade, cross-cultural exchanges in the Portuguese Empire, Lusophone literature, and the history of registries and notary practices in Portugal. Her most recent publication is the monograph A Historia dos Registos e do Notariado em Portugal (ICNM, 2024).
General Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: The Gold Coast
Introduction to Part 1
Historical and Geographical Context
1 Akwamu's Attempt to Gain a Monopoly
2 From a Sacred to a Common Place: the Diversity of Coastal Brokers
?1 Portuguese and English Brokers
3 The Case of John Thurloe
Part 2: The Slave Coast
Introduction to Part 2
Historical and Geographical Context
4 The Power of the King
5 The Portuguese Presence in Local Trade
?1 The Portuguese Never Left the Slave Coast
?2 Sao Tome, the "Portuguese" Saviour
6 English Factories: the Role of Petley Whybourne
Part 3: Angola
Introduction to Part 3
7 Kasanje and Angola: Singularities and Common Features
?1 Historical and Geographical Context
8 Pumbeiro: To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question
9 The Kingdom of Africanisation
?1 Antonio de Faria
?2 Dom Agostinho Quabora
?3 Dom Agostinho Rodrigues de Sa
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
