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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781928903321

Autore

Mann Kristin <1946->

Titolo

Slavery and the birth of an African city [[electronic resource] ] : Lagos, 1760-1900 / / Kristin Mann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-07852-6

9786612078521

0-253-11708-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (489 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/6209669109033

Soggetti

Slave trade - Nigeria - Lagos - History - 18th century

Slave trade - Nigeria - Lagos - History - 19th century

Slave trade - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Slave trade - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lagos (Nigeria) History 18th century

Lagos (Nigeria) History 19th century

Lagos (Nigeria) Commerce History 18th century

Lagos (Nigeria) Commerce History 19th century

Great Britain Commerce History

Great Britain Colonies Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-457) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The rise of Lagos as an Atlantic port, c. 1760-1851 -- Trade, oligarchy, and the transformation of the precolonial state -- The original sin : anti-slavery, imperial expansion, and early colonial rule -- Innocent commerce : boom and bust in the palm produce trade -- Britain and domestic slavery -- Redefining the owner-slave relationship : work, ideology, and the demand for people -- The changing meaning of land in the urban economy and culture -- Strategies of struggle and mechanisms of control : quotidian conflicts and court cases.

Sommario/riassunto

As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century,                the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important                port cities north of the equator. Slavery and



the Birth of an African City explores                the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of                international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders,                Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the                tiny kingdom of Lagos. This ma