John Thornton

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military strength gave African elites the capacity to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics of colonization which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers, and he explains why African slaves were placed in roles of central significance. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors, transferring and transforming African culture in the New World.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139636346
• Artikelnr.: 56551458

Autorenporträt

After years of living and serving churches in Wyoming, California, Oregon and Idaho-and, following retirement, in Washington, Arizona, North Dakota and Oregon again-John and his wife, Janylee, are back on their farm at the eastern edge of Oregon's Willamette Valley, nine miles away from the small town of Scio. At ages eighty-six and eighty-eight respectively, John and Janylee maintain a sizeable orchard of apple, pear, peach and cherry trees and keep a large flock of chickens. Currently, they are making plans to put the farm into full production with rhubarb and nursery crops and to have, as they say, "a future in agriculture." However, they make time for educational and political activities and remain engaged with Episcopal churches around the Valley. Their home continues to be a shelter for family, friends and neighbors; and all come to bring them the blessing of themselves. Between them, John and Janylee have four children, John Thornton, Jr., Andrea Thornton, Scott Sommer and Julia Ramirez, and six grandchildren ranging in age from eleven to twenty-two. The Thorntons are proud to say that everyone of them is doing something to make the world even more beautiful and to make it just.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Introduction
Part I. Africans in Africa: 1. The birth of the Atlantic world
2. The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans
3. Slavery and African social structure
4. The process of enslavement and the slave trade
Part II. Africans in the New World: 5. Africans in colonial Atlantic societies
6. Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labour
7. African cultural groups in the Atlantic world
8. Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world
9. African religions and Christianity in the Atlantic world
10. Resistance, runaways, and rebels
Part III. Africans in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.