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Shumway's work is important in that it expands our understanding of Fante's evolution over the eighteenth century and thereby develops a more thorough understanding of the causes and consequences of the rise of Atlantic trade along the Gold Coast. * H-NET *
Offers an important new analysis of the interaction of Fante and European societies in the long eighteenth century. Such work has been long overdue...This is a significant contribution to the literature which all serious scholars of the subject will want to engage with. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
This is a rich study, carefully conceived and argued. * H-AFRICA *
[A] significant contribution...Shumway argues her case with an abundance of carefully marshalled evidence. * LUCAS BULLETIN *
A valuable contribution to the history of modern-day Ghana. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *
Rebecca Shumway's The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is an elegantly written masterpiece of a crucial period in West African history when a coastal belt of European slave forts and African chiefdoms consolidated new forms of 'fetishism' and political economy. * ANTHROPOLOGY OF THIS CENTURY *
This is a rich study, carefully conceived and argued. * H-AFRICA *
[A] significant contribution. . . . Shumway argues her case with an abundance of carefully marshaled evidence. * LUCAS BULLETIN *
A valuable contribution to the history of modern-day Ghana. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *
Rebecca Shumway's The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is an elegantly written masterpiece of a crucial period in West African history when a coastal belt of European slave forts and African chiefdoms consolidated new forms of 'fetishism' and political economy. * ANTHROPOLOGY OF THIS CENTURY *
Book Information
ISBN 9781580464789
Author Rebecca Shumway
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint University of Rochester Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd