William H Worger, Nancy L Clark, Edward A Alpers

Africa and the West

A Documentary History, Volume 1: From the Slave Trade to Conquest, 1441-1905

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a new edition of volume one Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence. It covers the era of the slave trade through abolition and then conquest as the European scramble for Africa began. This new edition will use all of the documents in the first edition, taken from both African and European sources, as well as dozens of new photographs and over twenty new documents. This book provides a unique resource both for African history survey courses and for topical courses on imperialism, colonialism, economic history, and East-West relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780195373486
• ISBN-10: 0195373480
• Artikelnr.: 27869390

Autorenporträt

Willim H. Worger is Professor of History at UCLA. Nancy L. Clark is Professor of History at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History at UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

* VOLUME ONE
* Part 1: Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade 1441-1899
* Chapter One: European Discovery and the Beginnings of the Slave Trade
(1441-1654)
* 1.
* The beginnings of a regular European trade in slaves from Africa
(1441)
* Gomes Eannes De Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest
of Guinea, c.1453
* 2.
* The Pope grants to the Portuguese a monopoly of trade with Africa
(1455)
* Papal Bull Romanus Pontifex (Nicholas V), January 8, 1455
* 3.
* The First Convert to Christianity (1488)
* Ruy de Pina, Chronica del Rey Joao II, c.1500
* 4.
* The Wealth of Africa (1508)
* Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, c.1505-08.
* 5.
* The King of Spain regulates the importation of African slaves into
the Americas (1518)
* Licence granted August 18, 1518, by King Charles of Spain to Lorenzo
de Gomenot to ship slaves to the Americas
* 6.
* Trying to Regulate the Trade in Slaves (1526)
* King Afonso of the Kongo, letters to the king of Portugal, July 6 and
October 18, 1526
* 7.
* British attempts to break the Portuguese and Spanish monopolies of
slave trading (1564-68)
* Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and
Discoveries of the English Nation, 1598-1600
* 8.
* A Jesuit justifies the trade in African slaves to a skeptical
colleague (1610),
* Brother Luis Brandaon, letter to Father Sandoval, March 12, 1610
* 9.
* The importation of slaves into the Cape of Good Hope (1654)
* Instructions for the officers of the "Roode Vos" on the voyage to
Mauritius and Madagascar, May 8, 1654
* Chapter Two: The Business of the Slave Trade (1672- 1729)
* 10.
* An attempt to create an English monopoly of trade in West Africa
(1672)
* Charter of the Royal African Company, 1672
* 11.
* Sources of slaves for the Royal African Company (1678)
* Thomas Thurloe, letter to the Royal African Company, Gamboa, March
15, 1678
* 12.
* The log of the Arthur, a ship carrying slaves for the Royal African
Company from West Africa to Barbados (1677-78), journal of the
Arthur, December 5, 1677 to May 25, 1678.
* 13.
* The Council of the Indies answers questions from the King of Spain
concerning the introduction of slaves into Spanish America (1685),
question of the king of Spain to the Council of the Indies, July 5,
1685, and the reply of the Council.
* 14.
* The voyage of the Hannibal, carrying slaves from West Africa to
Barbados (1693-94), Thomas Phillips, "A Journal of a Voyage made in
the Hannibal of London", 1693-94.
* 15.
* Willem Bosman describes the Dutch trade for slaves on the West
African Coast (1704), Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description
of the Coast of Guinea, 1704.
* 16.
* In support of slavery and against monopoly (1729), Joshua Gee, The
Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered, 1729.
* Chapter Three: The Slave Experience (1785-98)
* 17.
* Venture Smith describes his capture into slavery (1798), Venture
Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, 1798.
* 18.
* Olaudah Equiano becomes a slave (1789), Olaudah Equiano, The
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789.
* 19.
* Anders Sparrman describes the treatment of slaves in South Africa
(1785), Anders Sparrman, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 1785.
* 20.
* Alexander Falconbridge describes his experiences as a physician on
slave ships (1788), Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave
Trade on the Coast of Africa, 1788.
* 21.
* The plan of the slave ship Brookes (1788), Captain Perry, measurement
of the Brookes, 1788.
* 22.
* In support of the continued importation of slaves into South Africa
(1797), Replies of W. S. Ryneveld to Cape of Good Hope Governor
Macartney's questionnaire, November 29, 1797.
* 23.
* Mungo Park describes taking slaves from the interior of Africa to the
coast (1796-97), Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of
Africa, 1799.
* Chapter Four: The Impact of Abolition (1807-1899)
* 24.
* Britain and the United States enact legislation to abolish the trade
in slaves (1807), Great Britain, an Act for the abolition of the
slave trade, June 1 and 24, 1806, May 1, 1807, United States of
America, Act to prohibit the importation of slaves into the United
States, March 2, 1807.
* 25.
* Ali Eisami recounts how he was taken into slavery and then freed
(1818), Sigismund William Koelle, African Native Literature, 1854.
* 26.
* Samuel Crowther escapes slavery (1821-22)
* Journals of the Rev. James Frederick Schön and Mr. Samuel Crowther,
1842.
* 27.
* The Asante king questions British motives in ending the slave trade
(1820)
* Joseph Dupuis, Journal of a Residence in Ashantee, 1824.
* 28.
* A slave revolt in South Africa (1825), Testimony of Galant at his
trial for treason, and speech of Fiscal D. Denyssen as public
prosecutor at the trial of the Bokkeveld insurgents, March 1825.
* 29.
* A Muslim explains the morality and practices of slavery (1890s),
testimony of Bwana Mtoro Mwinyi Bakari, recorded in the 1890s.
* 30.
* Tippu Tip, the "leopard" (1890s), autobiography of Sheikh Hamed bin
Muhammed el Murjebi (Tippu Tip) written in the 1890s.
* 31.
* Chisi Ndjurisiye Sichyajunga, slave (1890s), testimony recorded at
the beginning of the twentieth century.
* Part 2: The Conquest of Africa, 1809-1905
* Chapter Five: Assessing the Costs and Benefits of European Engagement
on the African Continent (1809-1838)
* 32.
* The subordination of labor in South Africa (1809), Proclamation No.
14, By His Excellency Du Pre, Earl of Caledon, November 1, 1809.
* 33.
* The trade question in West Africa (1807-12), letters of Zachary
Macaulay to Lord Castlereagh, May 8, 1807, and the African Committee
of the Company of Merchants to the Lords of the Treasury, April 9,
1812.
* 34.
* The King of Asante disputes the text of a treaty (1817-24),
* A. Letter of instruction from the African Committee of the Company of
Merchants to Thomas Bowdich;
* B. Letter of Sai Tootoo Quamina, King of Ashantee;
* C. Treaty made and entered into by Thomas Edward Bowdich with Sai
Tootoo Quamina, from T. Edward Bowdich, Mission from Cape Coast
Castle to Ashantee, 1819
* D. Joseph Dupuis, Journal of a Residence in Ashantee, 1824
* E. William Hutton, A Voyage to Africa, 1821
* 35.
* The impact of the abolitionists on labor legislation (1828)
* Ordinance No. 20, For Improving the Condition of Hottentots and other
Free Persons of Colour at the Cape of Good Hope, and for
Consolidating and Amending the Laws affecting those Persons, July 17,
1828
* 36.
* The settlers' revolt (1837)
* "Manifesto of the Emigrant Farmers", Grahamstown Journal, February 2,
1837
* 37.
* A missionary talks with a king (1836)
* Journal entry of George Champion for Sunday, January 17, 1836, Natal,
South Africa
* 38.
* Dingane kills the first settlers (1838),
* Journal entries of Francis Owen for February 6, 7, and 9, 1838,
Natal, South Africa
* 39.
* Advance by treaty in West Africa (1831-36)
* A. British peace treaty with Asante, April 27, 1831
* B. British treaty with King Pepple's House, Grand Bonny, January 25,
1836
* Chapter Six: Technology Increases the Ease of Conquest (1840-1864)
* 40.
* European mortality in West Africa before quinine (1840)
* Troop mortality in Sierra Leone, 1819-36, United Service Journal and
Naval and Military Magazine, 1840
* 41.
* The secretary of state for the colonies proposes a more
interventionist policy to end the slave trade (1841)
* Lord John Russell's instructions to Her Majesty's Niger
Commissioners, January 30, 1841
* 42.
* Treaties with "barbarians" are different from those with "civilized"
people (1841)
* A.
* Draft agreement with African chiefs, July 1840,
* B.
* Treaty with Kataba (upper Guinea coast), April 23, 1841
* C.
* James Stephen's minute on the implications of the Kataba Treaty,
September 6, 1841.
* 43.
* A long-sought-for highway into the very heart of the continent (1854)
* William Balfour Baikie, Narrative of an Exploring Voyage Up the
Rivers Kwóra and Bínue, 1854
* 44.
* The persistence of "illegal" slaving (1848-61)
* A. Brodie Cruickshank, Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa,
1853
* B. Paul B. du Chaillu, Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial
Africa, 1861
* C. Frederick Lamport Barnard, R. N., A Three Years' Cruize in the
Mozambique Channel, 1848.
* 45.
* Christianity and cattle killing (1856)
* Deposition made by Nonquase, a Kafir Prophetess, in an Examination
before the Chief Commissioner of British Kaffraria, 1858.
* 46.
* Boer slaving (1858)
* David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa,
1858.
* 47.
* Legislating race and religion (1858)
* General regulations of the South African Republic, February 1858
* 48.
* Expanding trade by taking territory, Lagos (1861)
* A. Lord John Russell to the Duke of Newcastle, recommending the
annexation of Lagos, February 7, 1861
* B. Lagos treaty of cession, August 6, 1861
* 49.
* French ambitions in West Africa (1858-64)
* A. Louis Faidherbe's policy for the French in West Africa, May 1864
* B. Plans for a new type of colonial army, 1850
* C. The role of missionary education for Africans according to the
Holy Ghost Fathers, 1858
* Chapter Seven: Africa for Africans? (1854-1881)
* 50.
* Samuel Crowther on the role of African missionaries (1854)
* Samuel Crowther, Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda
Rivers, 1854
* 51.
* Africanus B. Horton on an autonomous Africa (1868)
* James Africanus B. Horton, West African Countries and Peoples, 1868
* 52.
* Cetshwayo describes Zulu society (1881)
* Cetshwayo's testimony, July 7, 1881, Cape of Good Hope, Government
Commission on Native Laws and Customs, 1883
* 53.
* A university for Africa (1881)
* Edward Blyden's inaugural address as President of Liberia College,
January 5, 1881
* Chapter Eight: A New River of Gold Increases the Motivations for
Conquest (1874-1905)
* 54.
* Diamonds (1874),
* Gwayi Tyamzashe, "Life at the Diamond Fields", Kaffir
Express/Isigidimi, 1874
* 55.
* Cecil Rhodes dreams of empire (1877)
* A. Cecil Rhodes' confession of faith, June 2, 1877
* B. Codicil to the last will and testament of Cecil Rhodes, October
11, 1901
* 56.
* The sack of Kumasi (1873-74)
* A. Letter from King Kofi Karikari to Governor R. W. Harley
* B. Instructions from the Earl of Kimberley to Sir Garnet Wolseley
* C. The sack of Kumasi, Henry Brackenbury, The Ashanti War, 1874
* 57.
* The Congo is as rich as North America (1885)
* Henry M. Stanley, The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State, 1855
* 58.
* The scramble for Africa begins (1884-92)
* Templates for typical treaties signed by the National African Company
Limited and the Royal Niger Company, with African leaders between
1884 and 1892
* 59.
* The Berlin conference (1885)
* General Act of the Conference of Berlin, relative to the Development
of Trade and Civilization in Africa", Berlin, February 26, 1885
* 60.
* Rhodes reaches north (1888)
* Treaty between Lobengula, "king of Matabeleland, Mashonaland, and
other adjoining territories", and representatives of Cecil Rhodes,
October 30, 1888
* 61.
* The imperialism of chartered companies (1886-89)
* Royal charter granted to the National African Company (re-named the
Royal Niger Company in 1887), July 10, 1886, and royal charter
granted to the British South Africa Company, October 29, 1889
* 62.
* Voices of imperialism (1893-99),
* A. Frederick D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire, 1893;
* B. R. S. S. Baden-Powell, The Downfall of Prempeh, 1896;
* C. Sir George Goldie, report to the British governor on conquests in
the Niger basin, February 18, 1897;
* D. Joseph Chamberlain to Alfred Milner, September 2, 1899, and Milner
to Chamberlain, September 27, 1899.
* 63.
* Imperial slaughter at Omdurman (1898),
* A.
* G. W. Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartoum, 1898
* B.
* Winston Churchill, The River War, 1902
* 64.
* Voices of resistance (1893-1905)
* A. Ndansi Kumalo, description of the defeat of Lobengula and the
Ndebele, July-December 1893
* B. Hendrik Witbooi to Theodor Leutwein, August 17, 1894
* C. Memorandum, case of the Brass chiefs, June 8, 1895
* D. J. C. Smuts, A Century of Wrong, 1899
* E. G. C. K. Gwassa and John Iliffe, eds., Records of the Maji Maji
Rising, 1967