Lc Classification Number
Dt511.I67 2015
Reviews
" Daughters of the Trade represents the best of recent work that seeks to problematize the formal conjugal relationships between European men and African and Euro-African women that were such a prominent feature of the trading cities and forts of coastal West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. In elucidating the centrality of intimate relations in the trade and African colonialism, Ipsen's graceful and intellectually lucid book will almost certainly become the benchmark monograph on the subject."--Emily Clark, author of The Strange History of the American Quadroon, "In this carefully researched and beautifully written study, Pernille Ipsen uses interracial marriages on the West African coast to illustrate the very local construction of race and racial consciousness in the Atlantic world. African women are at the heart of this story--as wives, as traders, as mothers, and as daughters. Women's lives have too often fallen to the margins, and Daughters of the Trade forcefully argues that African women played crucial, if complicated, roles in the development of the Atlantic world."--Jennifer Morgan, New York University, "In this important and engaging study, Pernille Ipsen brings vividly to life the mixed-race communities that flourished around Danish forts on the West African coast. Her accessible work is full of surprises and adds a human dimension to the often abstract history of the slave trade, and the importance and originality of her research has implications far beyond West Africa. A first-rate achievement."--Randy J. Sparks, author of Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Table of Content
Maps Introduction. Severine's Ancestors Chapter 1. Setting Up Chapter 2. A Hybrid Position Chapter 3. "What in Guinea You Promised Me" Chapter 4. "Danish Christian Mulatresses" Chapter 5. Familiar Circles Epilogue. Edward Carstensen's Parenthesis Notes Note on Sources Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Slavery, Cultural Heritage, Africa / West, Sociology / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Women's Studies
Lccn
2014-040590
Dewey Decimal
306.84/6096670903
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
