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African Women in the Atlantic World

By Candido, Mariana P

African Women in the Atlantic World Politics & History

African Women in the Atlantic World

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While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and 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 social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its curtailment.
Mariana P. Candido is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame; Adam Jones recently retired as Professor of African History and Culture History at the University of Leipzig.
In association with The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
306
Release Date:
2020-11-20
Publication Date:
2020-11-01
Publisher:
James Currey
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847012647
ISBN13:
9781847012647
Weight:
468 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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