AFRICANA STUDIES 262c - d-ESD,IP.Village to Kingdom:Africa and the Atlantic World,1400-1880.Fall

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Bowdoin College

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2007. DAVID GORDON. A survey of historical developments before conquest by European powers, with a focus on west and central Africa. Explores the political, social, and cultural changes that accompanied the intensification of Atlantic Ocean trade and revolves around a controversy in the study of Africa and the Atlantic World: What influence did Africans have on the making of the Atlantic World, and in what ways did Africans participate in the slave trade How were African identities shaped by the Atlantic World and by the slave plantations of the Americas Ends by considering the contradictory effects of Abolition on Africa. (Same as History 262.)

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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