Slavery and the birth of an African city : Lagos, 1760-1900 / Kristin Mann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Kristin, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Nigeria--Lagos--History--18th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Nigeria--Lagos--History--19th century.

Slave trade--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Slave trade--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Lagos (Nigeria)--History--18th century.

Lagos (Nigeria).

Lagos (Nigeria)--History--19th century.

Lagos (Nigeria)--Commerce--History--18th century.

Lagos (Nigeria)--Commerce--History--19th century.

Great Britain--Commerce--History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This ma

Contents:

The rise of Lagos as an Atlantic port, c. 1760-1851

Trade, oligarchy, and the transformation of the precolonial state

The original sin : anti-slavery, imperial expansion, and early colonial rule

Innocent commerce : boom and bust in the palm produce trade

Britain and domestic slavery

Redefining the owner-slave relationship : work, ideology, and the demand for people

The changing meaning of land in the urban economy and culture

Strategies of struggle and mechanisms of control : quotidian conflicts and court cases.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-457) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07852-6

9786612078521

0-253-11708-9

OCLC:

476155595