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"The Meroitic empire, Queen Amanirenas and the Candaces of Kush: power and gender in an ancient African state"
On the enigma of Meroe ...
references thread with screenshots
isaacsamuel.substack.com/p/the-meroitic…
On the enigma of Meroe ...
references thread with screenshots
isaacsamuel.substack.com/p/the-meroitic…
1- list of monarchs of kush
2- Meroe as a city of violent contest and capital of the Napatan-era kings
2- Meroe as a city of violent contest and capital of the Napatan-era kings
3- the emergence of the meroitic dynasty
4-the emergence of the meroitic script and the circumstances that brought Kush's first female sovereign to power
4-the emergence of the meroitic script and the circumstances that brought Kush's first female sovereign to power
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A look at John Thornton's argument that the Atlantic trade was marginal to African economy, on why slavery was mild in Africa and why the primacy of labor over land in pre-colonial African production explains the existence of domestic slavery in pre-Atlantic Africa
A look at John Thornton's argument that the Atlantic trade was marginal to African economy, on why slavery was mild in Africa and why the primacy of labor over land in pre-colonial African production explains the existence of domestic slavery in pre-Atlantic Africa
He explains that Africans weren't coerced into the trade by european military superiority b'se europeans failed in their first attempts at colonizing the senegambia, west-central africa (plus southeast africa & the swahili coast) b'se it was africans with the military superiority
He has covered it before: the defeats successive european navies suffered in the senegambia, the portuguese defeats in west-central africa (kongo at mbanda kasi and kitombo, matamba's queen njinga, etc)
and if I may add: changamire and mutapa in southeast africa and the swahili
and if I may add: changamire and mutapa in southeast africa and the swahili
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Thread on economic dynamics of slave trade: why most west african states exported enslaved ppl and why some states didn't export them despite the overwhelming economic incentives (by extension political incentives) to do so
screeshots used are taken from these 4 books
Thread on economic dynamics of slave trade: why most west african states exported enslaved ppl and why some states didn't export them despite the overwhelming economic incentives (by extension political incentives) to do so
screeshots used are taken from these 4 books
initially, there was no "stock" of slaves in africa, waiting for European buyers. Instead, the expansion of the trade was b'se there was a price differential between retaining slaves locally vs exporting them in which the latter's high price rationalized slave exportation
for the majority of (coastal) african states that did export slaves the question of complicity and agency is best answered in Robin law's introduction to ouidah -which was west africa's biggest slave "port"
on the rationale during the trade and ultimately the legacy of the trade
on the rationale during the trade and ultimately the legacy of the trade
