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Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery Women, Trade & Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790–1812 by Candido, Mariana P.; Jones, Adam; Candido, Mariana P.; Schwarz, Suzanne; Mann, Kristin; Sarr, Assan; Jones, Adam; Jones, Hilary; Adelusi-Adeluyi, Ademide; Oliveira, Vanessa S.; Everts, Natalie; Semley, Lorelle; Salas, Esteban A.; Kriger, Colleen E is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the Euro-African encounter.HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019 While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in Westand West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the first time,the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their soc

Author

Candido, Mariana P.; Jones, Adam; Candido, Mariana P.; Schwarz, Suzanne; Mann, Kristin; Sarr, Assan; Jones, Adam; Jones, Hilary; Adelusi-Adeluyi, Ademide; Oliveira, Vanessa S.; Everts, Natalie; Semley, Lorelle; Salas, Esteban A.; Kriger, Colleen E

Publisher

Boydell and Brewer Limited

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847012159