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Africa Before American Slavery. The peoples of West Africa had rich and diverse histories and cultures centuries before Europeans arrived. Africans had kingdoms and city-states, each with its own language and culture.
9 paź 2019 · Forms of slavery have existed on all continents at different times in history – for instance, as a means of exploiting those captured in war – especially where there were labour shortages and an abundance of land. Slavery was certainly present in some African societies before the rise of Islam.
1. Culture, Trade and Diaspora in Pre-Atlantic Western Africa 31 2. The Formation of Early Atlantic Societies in Senegambia and Upper Guinea 69 3. The Settlement of Cabo Verde and Early Signs of Creolisation in Western Africa 95 4. The New Christian Diaspora in Cabo Verde and the Rise of a Creole Culture in Western Africa 120 5.
West Africa before the European slave trade. A map depicting the three most well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source. The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long before European slaver traders arrived.
Three main centers of slave population in the Americas grew up in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. West African captives went first to the urban center of Lima in Peru and second, in Mexico, to Mexico City and Vera Cruz.
understanding of the various modes of resistance West Africans employed to stem the encroaching tide of Arab imperializing efforts, European mer-cantile capitalism, and the Atlantic slave trade, whilst also highlighting how ethnic and religious identities were constructed and mobilized in the region.
3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia, and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti.
