TY - BOOK ID - 77901778 TI - Slavery and reform in West Africa : toward emancipation in nineteenth-century Senegal and the Gold Coast PY - 2004 SN - 0821441833 9780821441831 0821415204 0821415212 9780821415207 9780821415214 0852554494 9780852554494 0852554443 9780852554449 PB - Athens : Ohio University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Slaves KW - Slavery KW - Enslaved persons KW - Persons KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Emancipation KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901778 AB - A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region's role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of "legitimate goods" and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed. In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in Wes ER -