Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations Along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900 by Walter Hawthorne

Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations Along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900

Walter Hawthorne

280 pages paperback 2003

2 editions

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Hawthorne reevaluates long-held notions about the Atlantic slave trade's impact on a number of "stateless" - or decentralized - societies in Africa's Guinea-Bissau region. He shows that decentralized societies were by no means passive victims of t...

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