Bruce L Mouser
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 117968 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruce L Mouser |
| NOMBRES | Bruce L |
| APELLIDO | Mouser |
| FIRMA | MOUSER B L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–La Crosse |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Expulsion of Dalu ModuA Muslim Trader in Anti-Slavery Freetown
Insurrection As Socioeconomic Change
Rebellion and issues of inclusion, exclusion, and reconciliation have a long tradition on the Guinea/Sierra Leone Coast. This chapter focuses upon three slave rebellions of the late eighteenth century and during the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade and relates them to contemporary periods of regional turmoil and political dysfunction. Between 1793/94 and 1796 the landholders in the newly-established alliance consolidated control of their own re…
A History of the Rio Pongo
Forty-five years ago (1965), when some of us were beginning our studies of the history of the Upper Guinea coast, there existed only a few published general histories of Guinea-Conakry or region-based models to guide us. André Arcin's substantial works (1907 and 1911) provided original but awkward structures from which we could commence our work, but his monographs tended to be based heavily upon a colonial presence, a necessity to make sense of …
"Walking Caravans" of Nineteenth Century Fuuta Jaloo, Western Africa
This paper investigates the modes and patterns of travel in pre-colonial Fuuta Jaloo and along the Upper Guinea Coast during the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on caravan commerce. It describes a network of indigenous protectors who were assigned or simply assumed the task of insuring that trade roads within Fuuta Jaloo remain open and that caravans be allowed to operate smoothly and properly while using state regulated roads. Based cl…
Origins of Church Missionary Society Accommodation to Imperial Policy
A series of events in 1807 changed the mission of the early Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone from one that was designed initially and solely to spread the Christian message in the interior of West Africa to one that included service to the Colony of Sierra Leone. Before 1807, the Society had identified the Susu language as the appointed language to be used in its conversion effort, and it intended to establish an exclusively Susu Mission…
Forgotten Expedition into Guinea, West Africa, 1815–17
Late in 1818 Major William Gray (Royal African Corps) and Staff Surgeon (Captain) Duncan Dochard (RAC) launched a mission of discovery along the Gambia River, intending to determine the source of the Niger River and follow its course to the point that it flowed into an inland sea or emptied into an ocean. That expedition consisted of no fewer than 62 military personnel, 31 formally appointed civilians, and likely an equal number of unofficial Afr…
Rebellion, Marronage and Jihād
The Yangekori Rebellion was among the earliest extensive uprisings within Africa to be reported in European documents. This rebellion, which lasted for more than a decade, included domestic and market-bound slaves as well as free persons, all of whom became involved in promoting significant changes in traditional socioeconomic and political patterns. What made this rebellion unique and more informative for the present and for research relating to…
A Rocky Road to Publication
The path to the publication of our collaborative research concerning an aspect of earliest Church Missionary Society history has been an irregular, and often despairing, one. For a time it seemed unlikely that we would ever finish our research, and that was simply the research part of it. The prospect of collaboration by husband and wife, persons trained in disciplines—history and sociology—guided by approaches seemingly opposed to each other, wa…
Tales from the Ships
Continuing British Interest in Coastal Guinea-Conakry and Fuuta Jaloo Highlands (1750 to 1850)
Préservation des intérêts britanniques en Guinée-Conakry et au Fouta-Djalon. – Bien avant que la France imposa son contrôle sur la Côte de Guinée-Conakry et au Fouta-Djalon dans la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle, les commerçants britanniques et la Grande-Bretagne considéraient que cette région faisait partie de leur sphère d’influence. Aussi s’attendaient-ils à ce qu’elle devînt territoire britannique si jamais elle venait à être absorbée par une…
P.E.H. Hair, 1926–2001
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Who and Where Were the Baga? European Perceptions from 1793 to 1821
By the end of the eighteenth century the Baga, or peoples of the seaside (the bae raka ), were already long-term residents of mangrove islands located between Guinea-Bissau and Iles de Los—the northern half of Guinea-Conakry's current coast. That fact is well known and accepted by everyone interested in the ethnohistory of this part of Guinea. What is less clearly documented or understood is how far they extended inland, the context of that resid…
A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica
Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica. It is one of the best first-hand narratives of the slave trade to survive. This book presents a faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log, which provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the eighteenth century. Gamble was Captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793-1794, the…
The Baltimore/Pongo Connection
Bruce L. Mouser, The Baltimore/Pongo Connection: American Entrepreneurism, Colonial Expansionism, or African Opportunism?, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2000), pp. 313-333
Missionary Encounters
Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies
The 1805 Forékariah Conference
Palavers, great meetings, grand conferences, “tribal” meetings— these are terms used to describe meetings among peoples in and near Sierra Leone, meetings in which political, diplomatic, and economic questions are discussed and sometimes resolved at the village, intervillage, and occasionally, national levels. These conferences vary in size and importance, depending on dimensions of conflicts or questions to be resolved. This paper focuses on one…
Journal of James Watt
Journal of James Watt
Baltimore's African Experiment, 1822-1827
An 1804 Slaving Contract Signed in Arabic Script From the Upper Guinea Coast
Few slaving agreements contracted between African sellers and American purchasers appear to have survived. They were rarely committed to paper, were destroyed after commitments were fulfilled, or were removed from business records kept by slave traders. The contract discussed here is of considerable interest as a document which, although brief, records important information and offers intriguing insights concerning African-European and African-Af…
Commerce et Traite des Noirs aux Cotes Occidentales d'Afrique
Strangers in African Societies
Guinea Journals
Théophilus Conneau
Rare has been the book on Africa that has acquired a history and become the subject of study in its own right. One such is the autobiography of Théophilus Conneau, a slave dealer of French and Italian background, who lived on the west coast of Africa during the 1830s and 1840s. Various accounts of Conneau's experiences in Guinea and Liberia have been translated into four languages, and were even incorporated into a successful novel in 1933, on wh…
West Africa
Strangers in African Societies
Missionary Encounters
Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies
Landlords-Strangers
In his study of Upper Guinea from 1545 to 1800, Walter Rodney describes the evolution of a formal relationship between Europeans hoping to settle on the African coast and trade for African products, and the African traditional elite who regulated the activities of the foreigners and profited directly from their presence. While Rodney's is undoubtedly the fullest and perhaps the best treatment of this relationship to date, the very scope of his st…
Rebellion, Marronage and Jihād
The Yangekori Rebellion was among the earliest extensive uprisings within Africa to be reported in European documents. This rebellion, which lasted for more than a decade, included domestic and market-bound slaves as well as free persons, all of whom became involved in promoting significant changes in traditional socioeconomic and political patterns. What made this rebellion unique and more informative for the present and for research relating to…
Trade, Coasters, and Conflict in the Rio Pongo from 1790 to 1808
The movement from ship to shore and to merchant stores occurred prior to 1790 in the Rio Pongo, where an indigenous trading system between the coastal Baga and the Fula of the interior had long existed. Between 1790 and 1808 contact with the interior improved. A vibrant European and Eurafrican trading community developed at the mouth of the river and coalesced to oppose an attempt by the Sierra Leone Company to capture control of the river's comm…
Guinea Journals
Continuing British Interest in Coastal Guinea-Conakry and Fuuta Jaloo Highlands (1750 to 1850)
Préservation des intérêts britanniques en Guinée-Conakry et au Fouta-Djalon. – Bien avant que la France imposa son contrôle sur la Côte de Guinée-Conakry et au Fouta-Djalon dans la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle, les commerçants britanniques et la Grande-Bretagne considéraient que cette région faisait partie de leur sphère d’influence. Aussi s’attendaient-ils à ce qu’elle devînt territoire britannique si jamais elle venait à être absorbée par une…
Who and Where Were the Baga? European Perceptions from 1793 to 1821
By the end of the eighteenth century the Baga, or peoples of the seaside (the bae raka ), were already long-term residents of mangrove islands located between Guinea-Bissau and Iles de Los—the northern half of Guinea-Conakry's current coast. That fact is well known and accepted by everyone interested in the ethnohistory of this part of Guinea. What is less clearly documented or understood is how far they extended inland, the context of that resid…
An 1804 Slaving Contract Signed in Arabic Script From the Upper Guinea Coast
Few slaving agreements contracted between African sellers and American purchasers appear to have survived. They were rarely committed to paper, were destroyed after commitments were fulfilled, or were removed from business records kept by slave traders. The contract discussed here is of considerable interest as a document which, although brief, records important information and offers intriguing insights concerning African-European and African-Af…
Baltimore's African Experiment, 1822-1827
West Africa
A History of the Rio Pongo
Forty-five years ago (1965), when some of us were beginning our studies of the history of the Upper Guinea coast, there existed only a few published general histories of Guinea-Conakry or region-based models to guide us. André Arcin's substantial works (1907 and 1911) provided original but awkward structures from which we could commence our work, but his monographs tended to be based heavily upon a colonial presence, a necessity to make sense of …
A Rocky Road to Publication
The path to the publication of our collaborative research concerning an aspect of earliest Church Missionary Society history has been an irregular, and often despairing, one. For a time it seemed unlikely that we would ever finish our research, and that was simply the research part of it. The prospect of collaboration by husband and wife, persons trained in disciplines—history and sociology—guided by approaches seemingly opposed to each other, wa…
The Baltimore/Pongo Connection
Bruce L. Mouser, The Baltimore/Pongo Connection: American Entrepreneurism, Colonial Expansionism, or African Opportunism?, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2000), pp. 313-333
The 1805 Forékariah Conference
Palavers, great meetings, grand conferences, “tribal” meetings— these are terms used to describe meetings among peoples in and near Sierra Leone, meetings in which political, diplomatic, and economic questions are discussed and sometimes resolved at the village, intervillage, and occasionally, national levels. These conferences vary in size and importance, depending on dimensions of conflicts or questions to be resolved. This paper focuses on one…
Trade, Coasters, and Conflict in the Rio Pongo from 1790 to 1808
The movement from ship to shore and to merchant stores occurred prior to 1790 in the Rio Pongo, where an indigenous trading system between the coastal Baga and the Fula of the interior had long existed. Between 1790 and 1808 contact with the interior improved. A vibrant European and Eurafrican trading community developed at the mouth of the river and coalesced to oppose an attempt by the Sierra Leone Company to capture control of the river's comm…
Landlords-Strangers
In his study of Upper Guinea from 1545 to 1800, Walter Rodney describes the evolution of a formal relationship between Europeans hoping to settle on the African coast and trade for African products, and the African traditional elite who regulated the activities of the foreigners and profited directly from their presence. While Rodney's is undoubtedly the fullest and perhaps the best treatment of this relationship to date, the very scope of his st…
Théophilus Conneau
Rare has been the book on Africa that has acquired a history and become the subject of study in its own right. One such is the autobiography of Théophilus Conneau, a slave dealer of French and Italian background, who lived on the west coast of Africa during the 1830s and 1840s. Various accounts of Conneau's experiences in Guinea and Liberia have been translated into four languages, and were even incorporated into a successful novel in 1933, on wh…
West Africa
Strangers in African Societies
Guinea Journals
Commerce et Traite des Noirs aux Cotes Occidentales d'Afrique
An 1804 Slaving Contract Signed in Arabic Script From the Upper Guinea Coast
Few slaving agreements contracted between African sellers and American purchasers appear to have survived. They were rarely committed to paper, were destroyed after commitments were fulfilled, or were removed from business records kept by slave traders. The contract discussed here is of considerable interest as a document which, although brief, records important information and offers intriguing insights concerning African-European and African-Af…
Baltimore's African Experiment, 1822-1827
Journal of James Watt
Journal of James Watt
The 1805 Forékariah Conference
Palavers, great meetings, grand conferences, “tribal” meetings— these are terms used to describe meetings among peoples in and near Sierra Leone, meetings in which political, diplomatic, and economic questions are discussed and sometimes resolved at the village, intervillage, and occasionally, national levels. These conferences vary in size and importance, depending on dimensions of conflicts or questions to be resolved. This paper focuses on one…
Missionary Encounters
Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies
The Baltimore/Pongo Connection
Bruce L. Mouser, The Baltimore/Pongo Connection: American Entrepreneurism, Colonial Expansionism, or African Opportunism?, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2000), pp. 313-333
P.E.H. Hair, 1926–2001
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who and Where Were the Baga? European Perceptions from 1793 to 1821
By the end of the eighteenth century the Baga, or peoples of the seaside (the bae raka ), were already long-term residents of mangrove islands located between Guinea-Bissau and Iles de Los—the northern half of Guinea-Conakry's current coast. That fact is well known and accepted by everyone interested in the ethnohistory of this part of Guinea. What is less clearly documented or understood is how far they extended inland, the context of that resid…
A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica
Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica. It is one of the best first-hand narratives of the slave trade to survive. This book presents a faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log, which provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the eighteenth century. Gamble was Captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793-1794, the…
Continuing British Interest in Coastal Guinea-Conakry and Fuuta Jaloo Highlands (1750 to 1850)
Préservation des intérêts britanniques en Guinée-Conakry et au Fouta-Djalon. – Bien avant que la France imposa son contrôle sur la Côte de Guinée-Conakry et au Fouta-Djalon dans la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle, les commerçants britanniques et la Grande-Bretagne considéraient que cette région faisait partie de leur sphère d’influence. Aussi s’attendaient-ils à ce qu’elle devînt territoire britannique si jamais elle venait à être absorbée par une…
A Rocky Road to Publication
The path to the publication of our collaborative research concerning an aspect of earliest Church Missionary Society history has been an irregular, and often despairing, one. For a time it seemed unlikely that we would ever finish our research, and that was simply the research part of it. The prospect of collaboration by husband and wife, persons trained in disciplines—history and sociology—guided by approaches seemingly opposed to each other, wa…
Tales from the Ships
Rebellion, Marronage and Jihād
The Yangekori Rebellion was among the earliest extensive uprisings within Africa to be reported in European documents. This rebellion, which lasted for more than a decade, included domestic and market-bound slaves as well as free persons, all of whom became involved in promoting significant changes in traditional socioeconomic and political patterns. What made this rebellion unique and more informative for the present and for research relating to…
Forgotten Expedition into Guinea, West Africa, 1815–17
Late in 1818 Major William Gray (Royal African Corps) and Staff Surgeon (Captain) Duncan Dochard (RAC) launched a mission of discovery along the Gambia River, intending to determine the source of the Niger River and follow its course to the point that it flowed into an inland sea or emptied into an ocean. That expedition consisted of no fewer than 62 military personnel, 31 formally appointed civilians, and likely an equal number of unofficial Afr…
Origins of Church Missionary Society Accommodation to Imperial Policy
A series of events in 1807 changed the mission of the early Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone from one that was designed initially and solely to spread the Christian message in the interior of West Africa to one that included service to the Colony of Sierra Leone. Before 1807, the Society had identified the Susu language as the appointed language to be used in its conversion effort, and it intended to establish an exclusively Susu Mission…
A History of the Rio Pongo
Forty-five years ago (1965), when some of us were beginning our studies of the history of the Upper Guinea coast, there existed only a few published general histories of Guinea-Conakry or region-based models to guide us. André Arcin's substantial works (1907 and 1911) provided original but awkward structures from which we could commence our work, but his monographs tended to be based heavily upon a colonial presence, a necessity to make sense of …
"Walking Caravans" of Nineteenth Century Fuuta Jaloo, Western Africa
This paper investigates the modes and patterns of travel in pre-colonial Fuuta Jaloo and along the Upper Guinea Coast during the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on caravan commerce. It describes a network of indigenous protectors who were assigned or simply assumed the task of insuring that trade roads within Fuuta Jaloo remain open and that caravans be allowed to operate smoothly and properly while using state regulated roads. Based cl…
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