TY - BOOK ID - 80820095 TI - The slave trade and culture in the Bight of Biafra PY - 2010 SN - 9780511781384 9780521883474 9781107662209 9780511932465 0511932464 0511781385 0521883474 1107211255 0511852312 1282918672 9786612918674 0511931123 0511927282 0511924747 0511929781 0511923023 1107662206 PB - New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Slave trade KW - Slavery 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 - Slaves KW - History. KW - Biafra, Bight of, Region KW - Social conditions. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80820095 AB - The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and how such large-scale commerce developed in the absence of large-scale centralized states. The result is the first study to link the structure and trajectory of the slave trade in a major exporting region to the expansion of a specific African merchant group - among other fresh insights into Atlantic Africa's involvement in the trade - and the most comprehensive treatment of Atlantic slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. The fundamental role of culture in the organization of trade is highlighted, transcending the usual economic explanations in a way that complicates traditional generalizations about work, domestic slavery, and gender in pre-colonial Africa. ER -