Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800

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Title:

Author:

Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949-

ISBN:

9780521627245

9780521622172

Personal Author:

Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949-

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Physical Description:

xxxvi,340 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in comparative world history

Series Title:

Studies in comparative world history

General Note:

Previous ed.: 1992.

Contents:

1. The birth of an Atlantic world -- 2. The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans -- 3. Slavery and African social structure -- 4. The process of enslavement and the slave trade -- 5. Africans in colonial Atlantic societies -- 6. Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labor -- 7. African cultural groups in the Atlantic world -- 8. Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world -- 9. African religions and Christianity in the Atlantic world -- 10. Resistance, runaways, and rebels -- 11. Africans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

Abstract:

This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.

Subject Term:

Slavery.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Relations -- America.

Africa -- Relations -- Europe.

Europe -- Relations -- Africa.

America -- Relations -- Africa.

Europe -- History -- 1492-1648.

Added Author:

Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949- Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1680.

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This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military strength gave African elites the capacity to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics of colonization which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers, and he explains why African slaves were placed in roles of central significance. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors, transferring and transforming African culture in the New World.