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Slave Traders by Invitation - West Africa in the Era of Trans-Atlantic Slavery (Hardcover)
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Slave Traders by Invitation - West Africa in the Era of Trans-Atlantic Slavery (Hardcover)
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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.
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