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024 7 _a10.9783/9780812295498
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812295498
035 _a(DE-B1597)521548
035 _a(OCoLC)1143818964
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 4 _aHT1331
_b.B46 2019
072 7 _aHIS037020
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082 0 4 _a306.3/62091821
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBennett, Herman L.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAfrican Kings and Black Slaves :
_bSovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic /
_cHerman L. Bennett.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 0 _aThe Early Modern Americas
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPrologue --
_tChapter 1. Liberalism --
_tChapter 2. Mythologies --
_tChapter 3. Law --
_tChapter 4. Authority --
_tChapter 5. Histories --
_tChapter 6. Trade --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler.In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals, establish treaties, and negotiate trade practices with autonomous territories. And he shows how Iberians based their interpretations of African sovereignty on medieval European political precepts grounded in Roman civil and canon law. In the eyes of Iberians, the extent to which Africa's polities conformed to these norms played a significant role in determining who was, and who was not, a sovereign people—a judgment that shaped who could legitimately be enslaved.Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves' experiences in the Americas.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
_zAfrica, West
_xHistory
_y15th century.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
_zAfrica, West
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
_zPortugal
_xHistory
_y15th century.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
_zPortugal
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aSlave trade
_xPolitical aspects
_zAtlantic Ocean Region
_xHistory
_y15th century.
650 0 _aSlave trade
_xPolitical aspects
_zAtlantic Ocean Region
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Renaissance.
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653 _aAfrican Studies.
653 _aAfrican-American Studies.
653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aEuropean History.
653 _aWorld History.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295498
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295498
856 4 2 _3Cover
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