The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–1820
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorge Felipe González (0000-0001-5632-0298, The University of Texas at San Antonio, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-341 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853721000517 |
| OpenAlex | W3211250865 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
In the early nineteenth century a centralized political entity, the Galinhas kingdom, emerged in southernmost Sierra Leone. Based on sources from Cuban, British, American, Spanish, and Sierra Leonean archives, this article examines the factors accounting for the emergence and consolidation of Galinhas. I argue that the postabolitionist (1808) redeployment of North Atlantic slave trading actors, networks, routes, and spaces, particularly the connection with Cuba and resources from the island, created the conditions for Galinhas's commercial growth and the centralization of its political power. I then problematize the relationship between warfare, the Atlantic slave trade, and state making. During the foundation of a predatory state, before a slaving and political frontier existed, wars were detrimental to trade. When warfare and commerce — or any social activity — coexisted in the same physical space, the interdependent balance between them, which supported the slave trade itself, was disrupted. After the end of the war, political stability boosted slave trading operations
Archaeology · Consolidation (business · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Frontier · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sierra leone · Sociology · State (computer science · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · History · Law
Production and Reproduction of Warrior States
The Registers of Liberated Africans of the Havana Slave Trade Commission
Slave Trading in a New World
The Diaspora of Sierra Leone’s Liberated Africans
The U.S. Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644–1867
Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Firearms and warfare on the Gold and Slave Coasts from the sixteenth to the ninteenth centuries
Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Context of West African History
The Import of Firearms into West Africa 1750–1807
Fully Capable of Any Iniquity’
The African Slave Supply Response
The Diaspora of Africans Liberated From Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century
Tricks of the Slave Trade
Production and Reproduction of Warrior States
Scarification and identity in the liberated Africans department register, 1814-1815
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |