Focusing on Niumi, a small settlement at the mouth of a river in the Gambia, this book provides an insight into the effects of globalization on this small African country, and places these events into deep historical context.

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia, Second Edition (Sources and Studies in World History)

History

Wright, Donald R.

Africa

Routledge

Drawing on written and oral testimony, Donald Wright locates a tiny place in Africa's smallest country within the history of the modern world. We see how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in Niumi, a little-known territory located on the north bank of the Gambia River in West Africa.

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia, Second Edition

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia

Niumi, a small, little-known territory located on the bank of the Gambia River in West Africa, is seemingly far from the reaches of world historical events. And yet the outside world has long had a significant - and increasingly profound - impact on Niumi. This fascinating work shows how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in this small region in Africa's smallest country. Drawing on written and oral testimony, and writing in a clear and personal style, Donald R. Wright connects 'globalization' with real people in a real place. This new edition updates discussions of global history and African history based on current studies and new developments that have been factored into the interpretive framework. Reflecting on recent visits to Niumi, Wright extends the story into 2009, to consider the impact of global recession and domestic political repression under a regime in power for the past fifteen years. Punctuating the narrative are photographs, maps, and 'Perspectives' boxes on selected topics such as the sale of slaves five centuries ago, colonial sexism, the fate of press freedom, and how popular culture affects growing up in a traditional society. Throughout, the author deals with African history seriously, global trends critically, and human lives sensitively.

The early history of Niumi: Settlement and foundation of a Mandinka state on the Gambia River (Papers in international studies : Africa series)

Ohio University, Center for International Studies

Over recent decades few topics of American history have been subject to greater attention and more thorough revision than African Americans in colonial times. Acclaimed works by leading scholars, relying on new bodies of evidence and writing from a fresh, Atlantic perspective, have provided a broadened, more nuanced view of the topic. In this third edition of one of the most popular books in our American History Series, Donald Wright works new interpretations into a narrative that provides a clear understanding of the scope and nature of the early African-American experience. Included are discussions of African Americans’ African origins; the Atlantic slave trade, based on the latest data from an on-line Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database; the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland colonies; the evolutionary formation of African-American culture; and the effects of the American Revolution on men and women of African descent, at the time and long thereafter. This third edition views African Americans in the British North-American mainland colonies more as their contemporaries did: as persons from one of the four continents who interacted economically, socially, and politically over a period of 180 years in a vast, vibrant, complex Atlantic world. It shows how the mainland North-American society that resulted from these interactions reflected the mix of Atlantic cultures and how the republic that a group of these people eventually constructed used European ideas to support creation of a favorable situation for those in control, persons largely of European descent. The African and African-American men and women, whose forebears had added greatly to the region’s economic and cultural viability, found themselves in 1789 with the least benefit from the nation they helped bring into existence. Of special value is the book’s bibliographical essay, an expansion and updating of earlier versions that led the historian Ira Berlin to label Wright “the historiographer of slavery in the early period.”

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution

Americas

Wiley/Blackwell

Slavery in the United States has been treated primarily as a nineteenth-century phenomenon; historians focused on the final thirty-five years of an institution that existed in this country for more than two centuries. With a shift in scholarly interest toward the culture of slaves, has come a new appreciation of its development over time and, accordingly, interest in the earlier years of the historical experience of African Americans. 
This fine, brief survey, which summarizes the story from West Africa through the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, offers a balanced, up-to-date treatment of West African cultures, the Atlantic slave trade, the slow development of slavery in the English colonies, the rise of racism, and the changing cultures of African Americans. It attends to important regional differences at a time when slavery existed in all the colonies along the Atlantic seaboard.

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins Through the American Revolution (American History Series)

Harlan Davidson

The American History Series: African Americans in the Early Republic - 1789-1831.

African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831 (American History)

Eisenstadt, A. S.

Franklin,John Hope

When the first edition of this revolutionary book appeared in 1990, it seemed that the study of African Americans in slavery was out of temporal and geographical balance. Most of the time that slavery existed in the United States-about two-thirds of it-was the colonial period. Yet the focus of the sudy of American slavery-and indeed of the history of all African Americans before the Civil War-long had been on the institution as it operated in the Cotton South from about 1830 to 1860. African Americans in the Colonial Era served as an early corrective to that imbalance, and a broad wave of new historical literature on African-American colonial history has since emerged. 
Carefully revised and greatly expanded in light of that new scholarship, the second edition of this highly popular book also includes wholly new topics such as African Americans in colonial Louisiana and Spanish Florida. The reader will be taken through the totality of the early African-American experience-with material on West-African culture; the Atlantic slave trade; the regional differences under which the institution operated; the rise of race-based prejudice; the role of African Americans in the American Revolution; and the manifestation and evolution of the African-American family and community, the keystone to the formation of African-American culture.

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (The American History Series)

What are the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland American colonies? How did the Atlantic slave trade operate to supply African labor to colonial America? How did African-American culture form and evolve? How did the American Revolution affect men and women of African descent? Previous editions of this work depicted African-Americans in the American mainland colonies as their contemporaries saw them: as persons from one of the four continents who interacted economically, socially, and politically in a vast, complex Atlantic world. It showed how the society that resulted in colonial America reflected the mix of Atlantic cultures and that a group of these people eventually used European ideas to support creation of a favorable situation for those largely of European descent, omitting Africans, who constituted their primary labor force. In this fourth edition of African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution, acclaimed scholar Donald R. Wright offers new interpretations to provide a clear understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and the nature of the early African-American experience. This revised edition incorporates the latest data, a fresh Atlantic perspective, and an updated bibliographical essay to thoroughly explore African-Americans’ African origins, their experience crossing the Atlantic, and their existence in colonial America in a broadened, more nuanced way.

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The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia, Second Edition (Sources and Studies in World History)

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia, Second Edition

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia

The early history of Niumi: Settlement and foundation of a Mandinka state on the Gambia River (Papers in international studies : Africa series)

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins Through the American Revolution (American History Series)

African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831 (American History)

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (The American History Series)

African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (The American History Series)