Sandra E. Greene is the Stephen '59 and Madeline '60 Professor of African History at Cornell University. She is author of Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast, Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter (IUP) and West African Narratives of Slavery (IUP).

Slave Owners of West Africa is a welcome and timely addition to the historiography of slavery and abolition in West Africa. . . . It is a must-read book for anyone in the field.(African Studies Quarterly) Overall, this book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship about an extremely complicated and sensitive subject by bringing to light the biographies of three individuals who represent a transformative turning point in African history.(African Studies Review)

• Acknowledgements Introduction1. Amegashie Afeku of Keta: Priest and Political Advisor, Businessman and Slave Owner2. Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: Of Chieftaincy and Slavery, of Politics and the Personal3. Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: The Faith Journey of a Slave Owner4. Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex

Sandra E. Greene is the Stephen '59 and Madeline '60 Professor of African History at Cornell University. She is author of Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast, Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter (IUP) and West African Narratives of Slavery (IUP).

Slave Owners of West Africa is a welcome and timely addition to the historiography of slavery and abolition in West Africa. . . . It is a must-read book for anyone in the field.(African Studies Quarterly) Overall, this book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship about an extremely complicated and sensitive subject by bringing to light the biographies of three individuals who represent a transformative turning point in African history.(African Studies Review)

• Acknowledgements Introduction1. Amegashie Afeku of Keta: Priest and Political Advisor, Businessman and Slave Owner2. Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: Of Chieftaincy and Slavery, of Politics and the Personal3. Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: The Faith Journey of a Slave Owner4. Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex

Sandra E. Greene is the Stephen '59 and Madeline '60 Professor of African History at Cornell University. She is author of Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast, Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter (IUP) and West African Narratives of Slavery (IUP).

Slave Owners of West Africa is a welcome and timely addition to the historiography of slavery and abolition in West Africa. . . . It is a must-read book for anyone in the field.(African Studies Quarterly) Overall, this book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship about an extremely complicated and sensitive subject by bringing to light the biographies of three individuals who represent a transformative turning point in African history.(African Studies Review)

• Acknowledgements Introduction1. Amegashie Afeku of Keta: Priest and Political Advisor, Businessman and Slave Owner2. Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: Of Chieftaincy and Slavery, of Politics and the Personal3. Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: The Faith Journey of a Slave Owner4. Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex