G Ugo Nwokeji
Biographic Data
| ID | 280731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Ugo Nwokeji |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Ugo |
| FAMILY NAME | Nwokeji |
| SIGNATURE | NWOKEJI G U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages
Between 1807 and 1843, British naval officers liberated more than thirty thousand Africans from slave vessels that embarked enslaved people along the Bight of Biafra. Large ledger books display these Liberated Africans' names, sexes, ages, and other characteristics. The names, many of which are easily recognizable today, provide clues about individuals pulled into the transatlantic trade and reveal a range of experiences that shaped the lives of …
Slavery in Non-Islamic West Africa, 1420–1820
INTRODUCTION Slavery was an ancient institution known to have been widespread in the Old World. As a part of the Old World, therefore, African societies practiced slavery; it would have been an anomaly if slavery did not exist on the continent. The Bible's Old Testament points to the existence of slavery in Africa, given that Joseph and his fellow Israelites were enslaved in Egypt before their escape (Exodus). Slavery existed in Christian Ethiopi…
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and how such large-scale commerce developed in the absence of large-scale centralized states. The result is the first study to link the structure and trajec…
Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World
The Roots of the African Diaspora: Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Names in the Liberated African Registers of Sierra Leone and Havana
Europe and the Americas have long dominated studies of transatlantic exchanges and much more is known about European participation in the Atlantic world than of its African counterpart. Current knowledge of how those parts of Africa located a few miles away from the African littoral contributed to the early modern Atlantic World is particularly sparse. This is despite the fact that the slave trade was the largest branch of transatlantic migration…
Characteristics of Captives Leaving the Cameroons for the Americas, 1822–37
On the basis of identifying the likely geographic origins of African names extracted from the Sierra Leone Liberated African registers, this essay estimates the provenance of the transatlantic slave trade that drew on the Cameroons estuary between 1822 and 1837. The sample, drawn from six separate vessels, is broken down by age and sex category and constitutes about 7 per cent of all Africans who left from the region in these years. It makes poss…
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks in the Making of Modern West Africa
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic
HE gender and age structure of the transatlantic slave trade is critical to T understanding the development of societies of the Atlantic rim. From the broad perspective of contact between the Old World and the New, two salient characteristics of that structure have emerged from the recent literature. First, as is now well known, males predominated in the Atlantic slave trade, though compared to other branches of pre-nineteenth-century migration, …
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Population Density: A Historical Demography of the Biafran Hinterland
Cet article traite de l’impact démographique du commerce transatlantique des esclaves sur l’arrière-pays du Golfe du Biafra, et de la répartition à l’intérieur des régions des captifs destinés à l’exportation. Il remet en question le point de vue de Joseph Inikori et Boniface Obichere selon lequel le Middle Belt au nord de la région procurait le plus grand nombre de captifs envoyés en esclavage outre-Atlantique. L’article, s’appuyant sur les jour…
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
The Slave Emancipation Problematic: Igbo Society and the Colonial Equation
The slave emancipation problem in colonial contexts, such as the Igbo case in Igboland, south-eastern Nigeria, deserves attention because there are too few relevant studies (Brown 1996; Nwaka 1985; Ohadike 1988). These studies spotlight wage labor above other aspects of the emancipation question. This approach is justified because the colonial anti-slavery policy there centred on the promotion and control of wage labour. The wage labour focus is …
African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic
HE gender and age structure of the transatlantic slave trade is critical to T understanding the development of societies of the Atlantic rim. From the broad perspective of contact between the Old World and the New, two salient characteristics of that structure have emerged from the recent literature. First, as is now well known, males predominated in the Atlantic slave trade, though compared to other branches of pre-nineteenth-century migration, …
The Roots of the African Diaspora: Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Names in the Liberated African Registers of Sierra Leone and Havana
Europe and the Americas have long dominated studies of transatlantic exchanges and much more is known about European participation in the Atlantic world than of its African counterpart. Current knowledge of how those parts of Africa located a few miles away from the African littoral contributed to the early modern Atlantic World is particularly sparse. This is despite the fact that the slave trade was the largest branch of transatlantic migration…
Characteristics of Captives Leaving the Cameroons for the Americas, 1822–37
On the basis of identifying the likely geographic origins of African names extracted from the Sierra Leone Liberated African registers, this essay estimates the provenance of the transatlantic slave trade that drew on the Cameroons estuary between 1822 and 1837. The sample, drawn from six separate vessels, is broken down by age and sex category and constitutes about 7 per cent of all Africans who left from the region in these years. It makes poss…
The Slave Emancipation Problematic: Igbo Society and the Colonial Equation
The slave emancipation problem in colonial contexts, such as the Igbo case in Igboland, south-eastern Nigeria, deserves attention because there are too few relevant studies (Brown 1996; Nwaka 1985; Ohadike 1988). These studies spotlight wage labor above other aspects of the emancipation question. This approach is justified because the colonial anti-slavery policy there centred on the promotion and control of wage labour. The wage labour focus is …
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Population Density: A Historical Demography of the Biafran Hinterland
Cet article traite de l’impact démographique du commerce transatlantique des esclaves sur l’arrière-pays du Golfe du Biafra, et de la répartition à l’intérieur des régions des captifs destinés à l’exportation. Il remet en question le point de vue de Joseph Inikori et Boniface Obichere selon lequel le Middle Belt au nord de la région procurait le plus grand nombre de captifs envoyés en esclavage outre-Atlantique. L’article, s’appuyant sur les jour…
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State
The Slave Emancipation Problematic: Igbo Society and the Colonial Equation
The slave emancipation problem in colonial contexts, such as the Igbo case in Igboland, south-eastern Nigeria, deserves attention because there are too few relevant studies (Brown 1996; Nwaka 1985; Ohadike 1988). These studies spotlight wage labor above other aspects of the emancipation question. This approach is justified because the colonial anti-slavery policy there centred on the promotion and control of wage labour. The wage labour focus is …
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Population Density: A Historical Demography of the Biafran Hinterland
Cet article traite de l’impact démographique du commerce transatlantique des esclaves sur l’arrière-pays du Golfe du Biafra, et de la répartition à l’intérieur des régions des captifs destinés à l’exportation. Il remet en question le point de vue de Joseph Inikori et Boniface Obichere selon lequel le Middle Belt au nord de la région procurait le plus grand nombre de captifs envoyés en esclavage outre-Atlantique. L’article, s’appuyant sur les jour…
African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic
HE gender and age structure of the transatlantic slave trade is critical to T understanding the development of societies of the Atlantic rim. From the broad perspective of contact between the Old World and the New, two salient characteristics of that structure have emerged from the recent literature. First, as is now well known, males predominated in the Atlantic slave trade, though compared to other branches of pre-nineteenth-century migration, …
The Roots of the African Diaspora: Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Names in the Liberated African Registers of Sierra Leone and Havana
Europe and the Americas have long dominated studies of transatlantic exchanges and much more is known about European participation in the Atlantic world than of its African counterpart. Current knowledge of how those parts of Africa located a few miles away from the African littoral contributed to the early modern Atlantic World is particularly sparse. This is despite the fact that the slave trade was the largest branch of transatlantic migration…
Characteristics of Captives Leaving the Cameroons for the Americas, 1822–37
On the basis of identifying the likely geographic origins of African names extracted from the Sierra Leone Liberated African registers, this essay estimates the provenance of the transatlantic slave trade that drew on the Cameroons estuary between 1822 and 1837. The sample, drawn from six separate vessels, is broken down by age and sex category and constitutes about 7 per cent of all Africans who left from the region in these years. It makes poss…
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks in the Making of Modern West Africa
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and how such large-scale commerce developed in the absence of large-scale centralized states. The result is the first study to link the structure and trajec…
Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World
Slavery in Non-Islamic West Africa, 1420–1820
INTRODUCTION Slavery was an ancient institution known to have been widespread in the Old World. As a part of the Old World, therefore, African societies practiced slavery; it would have been an anomaly if slavery did not exist on the continent. The Bible's Old Testament points to the existence of slavery in Africa, given that Joseph and his fellow Israelites were enslaved in Egypt before their escape (Exodus). Slavery existed in Christian Ethiopi…
The Origins and Destinations of Captives from the Bight of Biafra, 1807–1843: New Evidence from the Identification of African Names and Languages
Between 1807 and 1843, British naval officers liberated more than thirty thousand Africans from slave vessels that embarked enslaved people along the Bight of Biafra. Large ledger books display these Liberated Africans' names, sexes, ages, and other characteristics. The names, many of which are easily recognizable today, provide clues about individuals pulled into the transatlantic trade and reveal a range of experiences that shaped the lives of …
Political science (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · History (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Ancient history (4 works)