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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680

By John Thornton

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0521392330, 0521398649, 9780521392334
LCC
DT31 .T516 1992
Open Library ID
OL1548485M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
54 MB (56253622 bytes)
Pages
176\176
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This book shows how important the African role was in shaping the Atlantic world that developed after the navigational breakthroughs of the fifteenth century. The degree of African initiative displayed in this period is stressed, both by African elites in dealing with the new visitors and trading partners and, even by African slaves in the New World. Evenly divided into sections on Africa and Africans in the New World, this study stresses cultural and institutional backgrounds to Africa and African slaves. Although the book is intended to help Africanists understand how Africans fared in the Americas, its main purpose is to give readers familiar with Afro-American history a fuller and more dynamic vision of Africa, so they can see the African slave as an African and not just as a laborer.

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