Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition

by Sandra E Greene and Sandra E. Greene

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253025990
• ISBN13: 9780253025999
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"