Gift (eBook)

How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism

Washington DC) Araujo Ana Lucia (Howard University (Autor)

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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-99725-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-108-99725-2 / 1108997252
• ISBN-13: 978-1-108-99725-6 / 9781108997256