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Author Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949- author.

Title Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 / John Thornton.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 340 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in comparative world history
Studies in comparative world history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Birth of an Atlantic world 2. Development of commerce between Europeans and Africans 3. Slavery and African social structure 4. Process of enslavement and the slave trade 5. Africans in colonial Atlantic societies 6. Africans and Afro Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labor 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 11. Africans in the eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Summary "This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century."--Jacket.
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Subject Africa -- Relations -- Europe.
Africa.
Relations.
Europe.
Europe -- Relations -- Africa.
Africa -- Relations -- America.
America.
America -- Relations -- Africa.
Slavery.
Slavery.
Chronological Term 1492-1648
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949- Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1680.
Other Form: Print version: Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949- Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521622174 (DLC) 97039728 (OCoLC)37545606
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