Slavery and Reform in West Africa
Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast
In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in West Africa was forged. With distant metropoles unable to intervene in daily affairs, local European administrators, striving to balance abolitionist pressures against the resistance of politically and economically powerful local slave owners, sought ways to satisfy the latter while placating or duping the former. By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, Slavery and Reform in West Africa reveals not…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8214-1520-7
- EAN: 9780821415207
- Produktnummer: 1730867
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.0 cm
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education
Über den Autor
An assistant professor of African history at San Francisco State University, Trevor R. Getz has published articles on slavery and emancipation in West Africa, on the state of Akyem Abuakwa, and on the Atlantic slave trade.
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