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The gift : how objects of prestige shaped the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism / Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington, DC.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Araujo, Ana Lucia, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies on the African diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
- Slave trade.
- Presentation swords--France--History.
- Presentation swords.
- Presentation pieces (Gifts)--History.
- Presentation pieces (Gifts).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders carried this object from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in twenty-first century's Republic of Benin, from where French officers looted the item in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich set of sources in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as artifacts housed in museums across Europe and the Americas, Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates how luxury objects impacted European-African relations, and how these economic, cultural, and social interactions paved the way for the European conquest and colonization of West Africa and West Central Africa.
- Contents:
- Introduction: On Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade
- The Loango Coast and the Rise of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- La Rochelle and Atlantic Africa
- Slave Traders Turned Pirates
- Deciphering the Gift
- A Displaced Gift
- Ngoyo Meets Dahomey
- Conclusion: Objects that Shaped the Slave Trade and Colonialism.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108989756 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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