Kristin Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the Euro-African encounter. HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019 While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and o…
Slave voices in African colonial courts: Sources and methods
The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man’s Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, posse…
The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora. Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the firs…
Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil
Shifting paradigms in the study of the African diaspora - towards a researched agenda, Kristin Mann the evolution of the Brazilian community in Ouidah, Robin Law protection, political exile and the Atlantic slave trade - history and collective memory in Dahomey, Edna Bay the identity, contributions and ideology of the Iguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin - a reinterpretation, Olabiti Babalola Yai the Brazilian legacy in Dahomey, Elisee So…
A Tale of Slavery and Beyond in a British Colonial Court Record: West Africa and Brazil
This chapter describes an investigation conducted in 1928 and 1929 following the murder of three slaves accused of witchcraft in northwest Mauritania. Many old people and a few younger ones shed new light on the remembered events and on beliefs about the remote vampirism of which the three slaves were accused. The three slaves were two brothers (Hamadi and Souélim) and a sister (Zénabou), owned by Cheikh Ould Abd El Aziz, a notable of the religio…
African and European Initiatives in the Transformation of Land Tenure in Colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840–1920
Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900
This is a sophisticated analysis of the realities of slavery in an African culture in which belonging to a social group was the basis for both wealth and power. Mann (Emory Univ.) has devoted 30 years of research into the legal and financial records of this great port city in Nigeria to produce a masterpiece of urban history. She arranges her material in three chronological periods: the era of slave exports, the era of palm oil exports, and the l…
The Power of Song: Music and Dance in the Mission Communities of Northern New Spain, 1590–1810
"This book examines the sacred music and dance used in the Franciscan and Jesuit mission communities throughout the entire northern frontier of New Spain from the foundation of the northern missions in the late sixteenth century until the end of Spanish colonial rule. It attempts to examine the roles music played in teaching, evangelization of group identities"--Book jacket
Interpreting Cases, Disentangling Disputes: Court Cases as a Source for Understanding Patron-Client Relationships in Early Colonial Lagos
12 INTERPRETING CASES, DISENTANGLING DISPUTES: COURT CASES AS A SOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN EARLY COLONIAL LAGOS was published in Sources and Methods in African History on page 195
Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken Written Unearthed
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is…
Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos
The degree to which slaves could participate in the palm produce trade in their own behalf remains a key question in the debate over the impact of the transition from the slave trade to the vegetable products trade in nineteenth-century West Africa. Did the new ‘legitimate’ commerce create opportunities for slaves to trade for themselves, and through their efforts to accumulate resources, as many contemporary Europeans believed it would? Could sl…
From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They of…
Law in Colonial Africa
Marrying Well, Marriage, Status and Social Change among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos
Law in Colonial Africa
Marrying Well, Marriage, Status and Social Change among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos
Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil
Shifting paradigms in the study of the African diaspora - towards a researched agenda, Kristin Mann the evolution of the Brazilian community in Ouidah, Robin Law protection, political exile and the Atlantic slave trade - history and collective memory in Dahomey, Edna Bay the identity, contributions and ideology of the Iguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin - a reinterpretation, Olabiti Babalola Yai the Brazilian legacy in Dahomey, Elisee So…
From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They of…
The Power of Song: Music and Dance in the Mission Communities of Northern New Spain, 1590–1810
"This book examines the sacred music and dance used in the Franciscan and Jesuit mission communities throughout the entire northern frontier of New Spain from the foundation of the northern missions in the late sixteenth century until the end of Spanish colonial rule. It attempts to examine the roles music played in teaching, evangelization of group identities"--Book jacket
Marrying Well, Marriage, Status and Social Change among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos
Law in Colonial Africa
Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos
The degree to which slaves could participate in the palm produce trade in their own behalf remains a key question in the debate over the impact of the transition from the slave trade to the vegetable products trade in nineteenth-century West Africa. Did the new ‘legitimate’ commerce create opportunities for slaves to trade for themselves, and through their efforts to accumulate resources, as many contemporary Europeans believed it would? Could sl…
From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They of…
Interpreting Cases, Disentangling Disputes: Court Cases as a Source for Understanding Patron-Client Relationships in Early Colonial Lagos
12 INTERPRETING CASES, DISENTANGLING DISPUTES: COURT CASES AS A SOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN EARLY COLONIAL LAGOS was published in Sources and Methods in African History on page 195
Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken Written Unearthed
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is…
Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900
This is a sophisticated analysis of the realities of slavery in an African culture in which belonging to a social group was the basis for both wealth and power. Mann (Emory Univ.) has devoted 30 years of research into the legal and financial records of this great port city in Nigeria to produce a masterpiece of urban history. She arranges her material in three chronological periods: the era of slave exports, the era of palm oil exports, and the l…
The Power of Song: Music and Dance in the Mission Communities of Northern New Spain, 1590–1810
"This book examines the sacred music and dance used in the Franciscan and Jesuit mission communities throughout the entire northern frontier of New Spain from the foundation of the northern missions in the late sixteenth century until the end of Spanish colonial rule. It attempts to examine the roles music played in teaching, evangelization of group identities"--Book jacket
African and European Initiatives in the Transformation of Land Tenure in Colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840–1920
A Tale of Slavery and Beyond in a British Colonial Court Record: West Africa and Brazil
This chapter describes an investigation conducted in 1928 and 1929 following the murder of three slaves accused of witchcraft in northwest Mauritania. Many old people and a few younger ones shed new light on the remembered events and on beliefs about the remote vampirism of which the three slaves were accused. The three slaves were two brothers (Hamadi and Souélim) and a sister (Zénabou), owned by Cheikh Ould Abd El Aziz, a notable of the religio…
Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil
Shifting paradigms in the study of the African diaspora - towards a researched agenda, Kristin Mann the evolution of the Brazilian community in Ouidah, Robin Law protection, political exile and the Atlantic slave trade - history and collective memory in Dahomey, Edna Bay the identity, contributions and ideology of the Iguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin - a reinterpretation, Olabiti Babalola Yai the Brazilian legacy in Dahomey, Elisee So…
Slave voices in African colonial courts: Sources and methods
The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man’s Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, posse…
The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora. Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the firs…
African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the Euro-African encounter. HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019 While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and o…
Political science (12 works) · History (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (10 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Africa (6 works)