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Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900 (Social History of Africa Series)
Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves Transformations along the GuineaBissau Coast14001900 - Social History of Africa Series Author:Walter Hawthorne Hawthorne reevaluates long-held notions about the Atlantic slave trade's impact on a number of "stateless"--or decentralized--societies in Africa's Guinea-Bissau region. He shows that decentralized societies were by no means passive victims of the slave trade, as commonly depicted in the literature, but vigorously defended themselves from the in... more »cursions of the raiders.« less