Slaves from the Windward Coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8978713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Jones (0000-0002-8037-6926, University of Birmingham, corresponding author), Marion Johnson (0000-0003-2394-4197, African Studies Centre) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-34 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| 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/s0021853700017837 |
| OpenAlex | W1977791039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 23 |
The ‘Windward Coast’ between Cape Mount and Assini (modern Liberia and Ivory Coast) is credited by Curtin with the export of very large numbers of slaves in the late seventeenth century and most of the eighteenth, but with hardly any in the nineteenth. It is suggested here that the actual figures for the earlier period are much lower, many of those slaves attributed to this stretch of coast in the English trade having come from the region Curtin calls ‘Sierra Leone’, while a large proportion of those carried in French ships came from the Gold Coast or beyond. In the nineteenth century, slave trading continued on the coast between Cape Mount and New Sestos until 1840. More work is needed on available sources. The figures are far too uncertain to be used for a chronological underpinning of oral traditions of peoples a great distance inland
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cape · East coast · Ethnology · Geography · Gold coast · Mount · Period (music · Physical geography · Sierra leone · Underpinning · West coast · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Oceanography
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2026 (45) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |