Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900
Hawthorne reevaluates long-held notions about the Atlantic slave trade's impact on a number of "stateless" societies in Africa's Guinea-Bissau region.
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Hawthorne reevaluates long-held notions about the Atlantic slave trade's impact on a number of "stateless" societies in Africa's Guinea-Bissau region.
IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. IThe Dynamics of Regional Interactions251Political, Economic, and Agricultural Patterns Before the Mid-Sixteenth Century272Shipping Slaves from a Decentralized Region553Producing Slaves in a Decentralized Region91Pt. IIThe Dynamics of Intracommunity Interactions1174Struggles over New Political and Economic Institutions in Balanta Communities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries1195The Rise of Balanta Paddy Rice Production and Masculinization of Agricultural Labor in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries1516Political, Economic, and Agricultural Patterns in the Nineteenth Century177Conclusion203App. 1Bissau Slave Census of 1856211App. 2Cape Verde Slave Census of 1856215App. 3Cacheu Slave Census of 1856217App. 4Bissau, Cape Verde, and Cacheu Slave Censuses of 1856 Combined221App. 5Slave Exports from the Guinea-Bissau Region225Glossary of Foreign Terms and Measurements227Bibliography231Index251
