Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations Along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900
- ISBN-10
- 0325070504
- ISBN-13
- 9780325070506
- Category
- History / Africa / General
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Heinemann Educational Books
- Author
- Walter Hawthorne
Description
Hawthorne reevaluates long-held notions about the Atlantic slave trade's impact on a number of "stateless" societies in Africa's Guinea-Bissau region.
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