The African Link

The African Link: British Attitudes in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1550-1807

By: Anthony J. Barker

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Paperback | 15 February 2024 | Edition Number 1

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The African Link, first published in 1978, breaks new ground in the studies of pre-19^th century racial prejudice by emphasizing the importance of the West African end of the slave trade. For the British, the important African link was the commercial one which brought slave traders into contact with the peoples of West Africa. Far from remaining covert, their experiences were reflected in a vast array of scholarly, educational, popular and polemical writing. The picture of Black Africa that emerges from these writings is scarcely favourable - yet through the hostility of traders and moralising editors appear glimpses of respect and admiration for African humanity, skills and artefacts. The crudest generalisations about Black Africa are revealed as the inventions of credulous medieval geographers and of the late 18^th century pro-slavery lobby. The author combines the more matter-of-fact reports of the intervening centuries with analysis of 17^th and 18^th century social and scientific theories to fill a considerable gap in the history of racial attitudes.

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