Nourishing a Stateless Society During the Slave Trade
The Rise of Balanta Paddy-Rice Production in Guinea-Bissau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8980413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Hawthorne (0000-0002-1637-8468, Ohio University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| 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/s0021853700007696 |
| PMID | 18841607 |
| OpenAlex | W2098271506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
This essay examines the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on stateless societies, focusing on Balanta populations of present-day Guinea-Bissau. It demonstrates that some decentralized groups located on the ‘slaving frontiers’ of states managed not only to survive but also to thrive. In so doing, it shows how Balanta changed their settlement patterns and crop production techniques in response to threats posed by the slave raiding armies of Kaabu. From the mid-seventeenth century, Balanta produced and traded large quantities of paddy rice by organizing workers into age grades
Business · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · New guinea · Political science · Production (economics · Settlement (finance · State (computer science · Stateless protocol · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |