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Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré - Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa, Inbunden

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Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa

The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga

Av Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré

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Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than fifteen million people were uprooted from West Africa and enslaved in the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave systems The state of Gajaage, located on the West African hinterland, offered a doorway to the Atlantic Ocean and played a central role in the wide-scale trade system that connected the histories of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Focussing on the Soninke of Gajaaga, Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré demonstrates how their resistance to the slave trades led to the formation of a united community bound by an awareness of identity. This original study expands our understanding of the various modes of resistance West Africans employed to stem the encroaching tide of Arab imperializing efforts, European mercantile capitalism, and the Atlantic slave trade, whilst also highlighting how ethnic and religious identities were constructed and mobilized in the region.
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Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré is Assistant Professor at Pomona College and an African scholar whose research primarily focuses on the history of the Trans-Saharan and Transatlantic slave trades. He was awarded the 2022 Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship. With this fellowship, Traoré endeavors to shine a light on the unheard voices of African Egyptologists with the publication of a textbook featuring African perspectives on Egyptology.

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'The book will provoke new and interesting scholarly discussions and bring an important area of West Africa into broader historical conversations from which it has previously been missing. The work is highly original, both in the research presented and in the ideas it explores. It will be more than welcome to historians of precolonial Africa, the slave trade, Islamic Africa, French empire, and comparative slavery.' Rebecca Shumway, American Historical Review

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