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The years between 1680 and 1720 saw the intensification of the regional slave trade in West Africa. Previous scholarship has focused almost exclusively on Africans and Afro-descendants as brokers in the region, placing Europeans as Atlantic intermediaries. Europeans as Coastal Brokers in the West and West-Central African Slave Trade (1680–1720) argues that not only was European mediation in Africa deeply interwoven with endogenous trade networks, but also that it was eagerly desired by the powerful potentates of the hinterland as a means of increasing their political and economic power over the region. Examining the interconnected interests of coastal authorities and Europeans, this book demonstrates that Europeans were the key brokers in the diversification of slave trade routes to the shore.
Price: $125.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response
Publication Date:
22 May 2025
ISBN: 9789004730939
Format: Hardcover
Inês Guarda, Ph.D. (2016), King’s College London, is Lecturer of Instituto Camões, I.P. and Coordinator of the Portuguese Language Center at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul (Republic of South Korea). She has conducted research on the Atlantic slave trade, cross-cultural exchanges in the Portuguese Empire, Lusophone literature, and the history of registries and notary practices in Portugal. Her most recent publication is the monograph A História dos Registos e do Notariado em Portugal (ICNM, 2024).