Eurafricans in Western Africa - George E. Brooks

Eurafricans in Western Africa

Commerce, Social Status, Gender and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2003
James Currey (Verlag)
978-0-85255-489-0 (ISBN)
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This text examines the late-18th-century changes to the circumstances of Eurafricans - the offspring of Jewish, French, Dutch and English traders in western Africa.

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Luso- Africans, the descendants of Portuguese traders and African women, exercised important roles in commerce along the riverine networks of the West African coast. They were influential in the development and dissemination of the Crioulo language, the diffusion of numerous fruits, food crops and domestic animals, and influenced many African social and religious practices.
When Sephardic Jews, French, Dutch, and English traders arrived in western Africa, they and their Eurafrican offspring were constrained by African societies to accommodate to the same circumstances as Portuguese and Luso-Africans. During the latter part of theeighteenth century, Eurafricans' circumstances significantly changed in places where French and British colonial officials introduced European legal codes that enabled Eurafricans to acquire freehold property, bequeath dwellings,trading vessels, and other possessions to descendants, and exercise civic responsibilities.

North America: Ohio U Press

George E. Brooks is Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Introduction - Western Africa: ecological zones & human geography - Commercial networks: Biafada-Sapi, Banyun-Bak & Cabo Verdean-Lancado - Portuguese, Luso- Africans & European competitors - Western Africa & the onset of an era of droughts, famines & global economic transformations - The evolution of 'nharaship' in Senegambia - Trade with the Kaabu empire & Serra Leoa - Era of the second Cacheu Company - Expanding slave-trading networks & the corruption of African social & cultural patterns - Senegambia: Luso-Africans supplanted by Franco-Africans - Geba-Grande & Serra Leoa: Luso-Africans challenged & supplanted by Anglo-Africans - References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.10.2003
Reihe/Serie Western African Studies
Zusatzinfo 5 line illus.
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-85255-489-3 / 0852554893
ISBN-13 978-0-85255-489-0 / 9780852554890
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