Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Senegal and the Gold Coast by Trevor R. Getz

Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Senegal and the Gold Coast

Trevor R. Getz

288 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

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Local elites resisted, diverted and appropriated metropolitan attempts to end or restrict access to and control of slaves. At the same time slaves were able to liberate themselves and take part in mass emancipations. The situation was transformed ...

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