Abolition and the transformation of Atlantic commerce in southern Sierra Leone, 1790s to 1860s / Philip Misevich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Misevich, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Sierra Leone--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Sierra Leone--History--19th century.

Agriculture.

Colonization.

Commerce.

History.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Sierra Leone--Commerce--History--19th century.

Sierra Leone.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Commerce--History--19th century.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Sierra Leone--Colonization.

Physical Description:

xii, 290 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton : Africa World Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This book explores the relationship between the slave trade, agricultural production, and colonialism over the first half of the nineteenth century in southern Sierra Leone. Although it was located on the frontier of Freetown, the base from which British naval and colonial officials attempted to suppress African slave exports and promote free labor, southern Sierra Leone was violently integrated into the world that the slave trade made during its final 'illegal' phase. The book reveals how these contrasting forces -- one rooted in slave trading, the other in the conjoined projects of abolition and colonialism -- collided along the southern Sierra Leone coast and profoundly affected the lives of free and enslaved Africans throughout the region"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Southern Sierra Leone and the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries

The origins of captives leaving southern Sierra Leone in the nineteenth century

The provisions trade in the era of abolition, 1787-1856

Commercial transitions, Islam, and domestic slavery and slave trading, 1830s to 1860s

Colonialism and slavery, 1790s to 1860s

Epilogue: Transatlantic slavery and colonialism on Freetown's frontier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781569026410

1569026416

9781569026403

1569026408

OCLC:

1119120893