Eurafricans in western Africa
Subtitle: commerce, social status, gender, and religious observance from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
By: George E. Brooks.
Series: Western African studies
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Africa, West -- History.; Europeans -- Africa, West -- History.; Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History.; Africa, West -- Ethnic relations.; Africa, West -- History -- To 1884.; Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- History.; Africa, West -- Commerce -- Europe.; Europe -- Commerce -- Africa, West.
Description: "Eurafricans in Western Africa follows the changes that took root in the eighteenth century when French and British colonial officials introduced European legal codes, and concludes with the onset of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, when suppression of the slave trade and expanding commerce in forest and agricultural commodities again transformed circumstances in western Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-342) and index.