The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072ZYB8RV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Domingues da Silva is Assistant Professor of African history at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Daniel B.
Heywood, Boston University, author of Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior QueenAdvance praise: 'This is a valuable addition to the growing scholarship on the Angolan slave trade. No longer do we have to guess at slaving patterns and at the demographic impact of those patterns on particular communities. This book will immediately become a reference for scholars of the slave trade and abolition in the Atlantic world.' Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University, Rhode Island . The author's research leaves no doubt that the main source of slaves during the period were the communities nearer the coast of Luanda and the Kwanza River, and not those in the far interior. Indeed, Domingues da Silva shows the value of carefully constructed databases for answering questions that have been debated time and time again.' Walter Hawthorn
Domingues da Silva also offers a detailed 'geography of enslavement', including information on the homelands of the enslaved Africans and their destination in the Americas.. Domingues da Silva explores not only the origins of the slaves forced into the trade but also the commodities for which they were exchanged and their methods of enslavement. The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867, traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Further, the book examines the evolution of the trade over time, its organization, the demographic profile of the population transported, the enslavers' motivations to participate in this activity, and the Africans' experience of enslavement and transportation across the Atlantic. Drawing on archival sources from Angola, Brazil, England, and Portugal, Daniel B