Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast (The Early Modern Americas)

YO GRYNCH. MUCH NEEDED MATERIAL BROTHER. WRITTEN REVIEW LONG OVERDUE

This is a book for all those who follow SYSBM.It gives a clear insight to the civil war within AA society.

One of the problems with the history of early modern colonialism, imperialism and slavery is that so many archives are difficult to access. Sometimes this is because of problems of geography or preservation, but it also has to do with the fact that there aren't a lot of historians with the linguistic expertise needed to read and analyze sources written in, say, early modern Dutch or Danish. This book is a much-needed contribution to the history of Atlantic slavery and early modern West Africa that uses Danish sources to great effect. It'd be useful for graduate students and professors in history as well as for undergraduate classes on the history of slavery or premodern Africa. It's also quite readable and accessible, so I can imagine non-academic readers enjoying it as well. Highly recommended.

These women were sold into marriages (and in some cases, outright sexual slavery) by their FATHERS. Why are black men so desperate to make it seem like these women were salivating over Europeans? Perhaps they're looking for justification for their own obsession with non-black people?These sad attempts to blame their state on everyone but themselves is pathetic, embarrassing, and strangely effeminate behavior from a group of men who claim to be the most masculine.

This book lacks proper documentation. Based on theories. Not great for reference purposes.

I highly recommend this book. This book goes into detail about the interracial unions between African women and European (Danish) men on the Gold Coast (Present day Ghana) during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It also details how Africans as well as the African women in these unions benefited from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. These unions also produced Euro-Africans (mixed-race) children who also became part of the slave trade. Euro-African boys might grow up to work at the fort and Euro-Africans girls grew up and followed in their foremothers foot steps and married European men on the Gold Coast in marriages known as Cassare.