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 societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in
both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the
sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation,
changes in identity and the re-organization of ritual and social
patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were
vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond.
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