ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Atlantic Slave Trade, Abusua, Paternalism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Georgia Hartman

Document Summary

Anthro 41a lecture notes week 4: colonial occupation in. Lecture 2: slavery and paternalism on the gold coast. +very different from slavery of the atlantic slave trade. ~people kicked out of one abusua might join another as slave. ~subordinate status (limited freedom of movement, lower social status) +not until 1670s that europeans saw gold coast as place to obtain slaves/moetize trade. +rise in demand for labor in sugar plantation. +ahenfo might crease class of royal slaves who only had allegiance to them. Existence of slavery predated european arrival in continent. Remember akan society organized through real and fictive kin relations around abusua and oman. In contrast to plantation slavers in americas (primarily economic) First inhabitant of africa enslaved and taken to americas in 1500s. African leaders and entrepreneurs cooperated with european traders. By 1790s: european and american slave traders were sending 74k enslaved africans per year. European ideals of slavery as economic institution prevalent in gold coast.