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- catalog abstract "Fernando Po, home to the Bantu-speaking Bubi people, has an unusually complex history. Long touted as the "key" to West Africa, it is the largest West African island and the last to enter the world economy. Confronted by both African resistance and ecological barriers, early British and Spanish imperialism foundered there. Not until the late nineteenth century did foreign settlement take hold, abetted by a class of westernized black planters. It was only then that Fernando Po developed a plantation economy dependent on migrant labor, working under conditions similar to slavery. In From Slaving to Neoslavery, Ibrahim K. Sundiata offers a comprehensive history of Fernando Po, explains the continuities between slavery and free contract labor, and challenges standard notions of labor development and progress in various colonial contexts. Sundiata's work is interdisciplinary, considering the influences of the environment, disease, slavery, abolition, and indigenous state formation in determining the interaction of African peoples with colonialism. From Slaving to Neoslavery has manifold implications. Historians usually depict the nineteenth century as the period in which free labor triumphed over slavery, but Sundiata challenges this notion. By examining the history of Fernando Po, he illuminates the larger debate about slavery current among scholars of Africa.".
- catalog contributor b8320324.
- catalog coverage "Africa, West History.".
- catalog coverage "Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea) History.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Fernando Po, home to the Bantu-speaking Bubi people, has an unusually complex history. Long touted as the "key" to West Africa, it is the largest West African island and the last to enter the world economy. Confronted by both African resistance and ecological barriers, early British and Spanish imperialism foundered there. Not until the late nineteenth century did foreign settlement take hold, abetted by a class of westernized black planters. It was only then that Fernando Po developed a plantation economy dependent on migrant labor, working under conditions similar to slavery. In From Slaving to Neoslavery, Ibrahim K. Sundiata offers a comprehensive history of Fernando Po, explains the continuities between slavery and free contract labor, and challenges standard notions of labor development and progress in various colonial contexts. Sundiata's work is interdisciplinary, considering the influences of the environment, disease, slavery, abolition, and indigenous state formation in determining the interaction of African peoples with colonialism. From Slaving to Neoslavery has manifold implications. Historians usually depict the nineteenth century as the period in which free labor triumphed over slavery, but Sundiata challenges this notion. By examining the history of Fernando Po, he illuminates the larger debate about slavery current among scholars of Africa.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 250 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "From slaving to neoslavery.".
- catalog identifier "0299145107".
- catalog isFormatOf "From slaving to neoslavery.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "From slaving to neoslavery.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, West History.".
- catalog spatial "Africa, West.".
- catalog spatial "Equatorial Guinea Fernando Po.".
- catalog spatial "Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea) History.".
- catalog subject "967.18/6 20".
- catalog subject "DT620.9.F47 S86 1995".
- catalog subject "Slavery Africa, West.".
- catalog subject "Slavery Equatorial Guinea Fernando Po.".
- catalog title "From slaving to neoslavery : the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the era of abolition, 1827-1930 / Ibrahim K. Sundiata.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".