Africa and the West : a documentary history

The Resource Africa and the West : a documentary history
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Africa and the West : a documentary history
Title remainder
a documentary history
Statement of responsibility
William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, Edward A. Alpers
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Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Africa and the West presents a fascinating array of primary sources to engage readers in the history of Africa's long and troubled relationship with the West. Many of the sources have not previously appeared in print, or in books readily available to students. Volume 1 covers two major topics: the Atlantic slave trade and the European conquest. It details the beginnings of the slave trade, slavery as a business, the experiences of slaves, and the effect of abolitionism on the trade, using such documents as a letter from a sixteenth-century African king to the king of Portugal calling for a more regulated slave trade, and the nineteenth-century testimony of a South African slave accused of treason. The volume also covers the early nineteenth-century considerations of the costs and benefits of colonization, the development of conquest as the century progressed, with special attention to technology, legislation, empire, religion, racism, and violence, through such unusual documents as Cecil Rhodes's will and a chart of the costs of African animals exported to Western zoos.--Back cover
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
303.48/26701821
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
DT353.5.E9
LC item number
A34 2010
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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