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Shrines of the Slave Trade

Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia

by Robert M. Baum (research Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute For African-american Research, Research Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute For African-american Research, Harvard University)

  • Hardback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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In this work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.
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  • Author

    Robert M. Baum (research Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute For African-american Research, Research Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute For African-american Research, Harvard University)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    June 1999

  • Weight

    618g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195123920

  • ISBN-10

    0195123921

  • Eden Code

    1146759

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