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外文期刊>Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
>Abolition, Economic Transition, Gender and Slavery: The Expansion of Women's Slaveholding in Ghana, 1807-18741 I am indebted to Dr S.Y. Boadi-Siaw of the Department of History, University of Cape Coast, who read my manuscript and made important comments and suggestions which helped to improve the quality of this paper. View all notes
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Abolition, Economic Transition, Gender and Slavery: The Expansion of Women's Slaveholding in Ghana, 1807-18741 I am indebted to Dr S.Y. Boadi-Siaw of the Department of History, University of Cape Coast, who read my manuscript and made important comments and suggestions which helped to improve the quality of this paper. View all notes
The British withdrawal from the Atlantic Slave Trade fostered the expansion, rather than retrenchment of slavery within Africa. It also spurred a shift in the pre-nineteenth-century gendered pattern of slaveholding. This paper examines the extent to which radical economic changes altered the gendered structure of slaveholding in post-abolition Ghana. It argues that the British prohibition liberalised slaveholding conditions and resulted in a reconceptualisation of the value of slaves which breached the tradition of restricted female proprietorship of slaves, and also led to increased women's earning capacity, slave acquisition and use, as well as the scale of their holdings.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440390903481696
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