The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–1820

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dc.contributor.authorFelipe-Gonzalez, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-26T18:30:44Z
dc.date.available2022-04-26T18:30:44Z
dc.date.issued2021-11-02
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_US
dc.description.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-8537
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/849
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Journal of African History;Volume 62, Issue 3
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectSierra Leoneen_US
dc.subjectLiberiaen_US
dc.subjectdiasporaen_US
dc.subjectWestern Africaen_US
dc.subjectAfrican diasporaen_US
dc.subjectAtlantic worlden_US
dc.subjectslave tradeen_US
dc.subjectkingdom and statesen_US
dc.subjectwaren_US
dc.titleThe Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–1820en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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