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  • Crossroads and Exchanges in the Scandinavian Atlantic and Atlantic West Africa: Framing Texts of Eighteenth-Century African Christians

  • Ray Kea
  • Journal:
    Itinerario / Volume 43 / Issue 2 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2019, pp. 262-282

  • The interconnectedness of Atlantic West Africa and the Scandinavian Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries exemplifies an entangled or shared history (histoire croisée). The present article maintains that in the context of the brutal transatlantic chattel trade this history manifests different historical trajectories as well as the temporality of episodic events and structural duration that are configured in the divergent itineraries of two eighteenth-century African Christians. Their texts and life histories reveal them as purveyors of intertwined Christian and non-Christian cultural codes and discursive fields, in one case according to a plantation-colony itinerary and in the other according to a world-port itinerary. The complex social realities of multiple texts and material cultures did not operate independently of socioeconomic structures intertwined with Atlantic world circuits.

  • 10 - Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800

  • from Part Two - Macro-regions
  • Edited by Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History
    Published online:
    05 May 2015
    Print publication:
    09 April 2015, pp 243-268

  • Summary

    This chapter offers a synthesis of Africa's early modern history with particular reference to phases of historical change and social development and their intersections with the rest of the world as well as the local interplay of structure, culture and historically determined forms of social production. It divides Africa into two geo-regions: the greater Sahara, and greater Zambezia. The historical landscape of the greater Sahara in the early modern period was dominated by dense urban networks and city-oriented economies. Near the Limpopo River, the stratified community of Thulamela, dated between the thirteenth and late seventeenth centuries, had elites residing in a large dzimbabwe on the hilltop and the rest of the population of craftsmen, herders and peasants in the valley below. The stone fort and the palace became prominent landscape features in southern Zambezia from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in the context of an expanding mercantile frontier, political de-centralization on a regional scale and militarism.