ebooks Origins of the Black Atlantic (Rewriting Histories) by From Laurent M Dubois in History

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Based on extensive research; and drawing on a wide range of sources; including local documents and interviews with descendants of both slaves and slaveowners; Cooper reconstructs the plantation economy of the East African coast and its effects on slaves. His work is intelligent; quite readable; and broadly comparative; as he relates the regional variations in slave systems along the coast and sets them beside forms of slavery