West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade Archaeological Perspectives

by DeCorse, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781474291040
• ISBN10: 147429104X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-10-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological data from Senegal to the Cameroon. It focuses on the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trade, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. The geographical and topical scope of this volume draws together archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa and is an important resource for West Africanists and all researchers interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as well as for those examining African continuities in the Americas.

Author Biography

Christopher DeCorse is Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword Merrick Posnansky
1. Introduction Christopher DeCorse
2. Tools for Understanding Transformation and Continuity in Senegambian Society: 1500 – 1900 Susan Keech McIntosh, with a contribution by I. Thiaw
3. Historical Process and the Impact of the Atlantic Trade on Banda, Ghana, c. 1800 – 1920 Ann Brower Stahl
4. The Effect of the Slave Trade on the Bassar Ironworking Society, Togo Philip Lynton de Barras
5. Change and Continuity in Coastal Bénin Kenneth G. Kelly
6. Kanem-Borno: A Brief Summary of the History and Archaeology of an Empire of the Central Bilad al-Sudan Detlef Gronenborn
7. State Formation and Enslavement in the Southern Lake Chad Basin Scott MacEachern
8. 500 Years in the Cameroons: Making Sense of the Archaeological Record Augustin F. C. Holl
9. An Americanist Perspective of African Archaeology: Toward an Archaeology of the Black Atlantic Theresa A. Singleton
Index