Shrines of the slave trade : Diola religion and society in precolonial Senegambia /

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 pri...

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Main Author: Baum, Robert M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central