Making Money. Colleen E. Kriger

Making Money - Colleen E. Kriger


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      Making Money

       Africa in World History

      SERIES EDITORS: DAVID ROBINSON, JOSEPH C. MILLER, AND TODD CLEVELAND

      James C. McCann

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      Colleen E. Kriger

       Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast

       Making Money

       Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast

      Colleen E. Kriger

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

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      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      COVER: King of Sestos Receives Jean Barbot.

      The National Archives of the UK, Jean Barbot ms, ADM 7/830A.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Kriger, Colleen E., author.

      Title: Making money : life, death, and early modern trade on Africa's Guinea Coast / Colleen E. Kriger.

      Other titles: Africa in world history.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: Africa in world history

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017036292| ISBN 9780896803152 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780896802964 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780896805002 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Guinea (Region)--Commerce--Great Britain--History--17th century. | Great Britain--Commerce--Guinea (Region)--History--17th century. | Royal African Company--History--17th century. | Slave trade--Guinea (Region) | Guinea (Region)--History--17th century.

      Classification: LCC HF3920.Z7 G924 2017 | DDC 382.0966041--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036292

      To My Students—Past, Present, and Future

      CONTENTS

       List of Illustrations

       Series Editors’ Preface

       Acknowledgments

       INTRODUCTION: Atlantic Lives: Anglo-African Trade in Northern Guinea

       ONE: Buyers and Sellers in Cross-Cultural Trade

       TWO: “Artificers” and Merchants: Making and Moving Goods

       THREE: West Africans Profiting in Atlantic Trade

       FOUR: Company Property: Captives, Rebels, and Grometos

       FIVE: Free Agents and Local Hires: Managing Men in Northern Guinea

       CONCLUSION: Anglo-African Relations

       Suggested Further Readings, by Chapter and Topic

       Notes

       Works Cited

       Index

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Figures

       1.1. Cotton tunic, eleventh or twelfth c. CE, Mali

       1.2. Upper Guinea Coast and Cape Verde Islands

       1.3. King of Sestos receives Jean Barbot

       2.1. European floor loom and weaver

       2.2. A coppersmith at work

       2.3. Port Loko Creek and Rokelle River, Sierra Leone Estuary

       2.4. Trade in captives, Senegambia region

       3.1. Mouth of the Gambia River and James Island

       3.2. A Creole ivory horn

       3.3. Fort and harbor at Cacheu

       3.4. RAC debt note to Bento Sanchy

       4.1. Corporal punishment of slave runaways, Brazil and Caribbean

       4.2. Plan of James Island and the fort

       5.1. Plants and trees, seventeenth c. Guinea Coast

      Maps

       1.1. Places mentioned in chapter 1

       1.2. Production and circulation of commodity currencies, West Africa ca. 1500

       2.1. Major Afro-Eurasian exports in Anglo-African North Atlantic trade, seventeenth c.

       2.2.


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