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Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia Book

Shrines of the Slave Trade : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195123920 : 0195123921 : 17 Jun 1999 : This text aims to reconstruct religious and social history of Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when Atlantic slave trade was at its height. It shows how leaders used religion to regulate the influence of the trade, and demonstrates how this changed religious life.Read More

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    In this groundbreaking 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 colse involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.

  • 0195123921
  • 9780195123920
  • Robert M. Baum
  • 17 June 1999
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
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