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Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
Shrines of the Slave Trade Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia Author:Robert Martin Baum, Robert M. Baum In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence ... more »of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this colse involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.« less