Ana Lucia (Howard University, Washington DC) Araujo 
Gift [PDF ebook] 
How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism

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The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders carried this object from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in twenty-first century’s Republic of Benin, from where French officers looted the item in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich set of sources in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as artifacts housed in museums across Europe and the Americas, Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates how luxury objects impacted European-African relations, and how these economic, cultural, and social interactions paved the way for the European conquest and colonization of West Africa and West Central Africa.

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格式 PDF ● ISBN 9781108997256 ● 出版者 Cambridge University Press ● 发布时间 2023 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 9240688 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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