African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880 (Western Africa Series, 13)

This book brings shows the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women ; the factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility; and women's economic power and its curtailment.

• | Author: Mariana P. Candido, Adam Jones, Mariana P. Candido
• | Publisher: James Currey
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1847012132
• | ISBN-13: 9781847012135