Disentangling the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in African Diaspora Populations from a Genomic Perspective

African diaspora and the circulation of language: Cuban and Afro-Cuban loanwords in Equatorial Guinea

International Journal of the Sociology of Language ◽

10.1515/ijsl-2016-0008 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 (239) ◽

Author(s):

Susana Castillo-Rodríguez

Keyword(s):

African Diaspora ◽

Language Contact ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Cuban Revolution ◽

Equatorial Guinea ◽

Potential Influence ◽

Archival Material ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

Historical Episode ◽

Public Construction

AbstractWhen in 1861 nearly 200 emancipated black Cubans settled in the “Barrio Congo” of Fernando Po to work in public construction, a process of language contact initiated. Four years later, a few hundred political activists were deported from Cuba to Fernando Po because of their potential influence in the Cuban revolution. This historical episode might have triggered Cubans’ and Afro-Cubans’ lexical transfers to the Spanish spoken in Fernando Po as a result of the two-way connection of the transatlantic slave trade. Based on royal decrees, archival material and the memoirs of Cuban exiles (Balmaseda, Francisco Javier. [1869] 1874.

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The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Ethnic Stratification in Africa

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.101.3.571 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 101 (3) ◽

pp. 571-576 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Warren Whatley ◽

Rob Gillezeau

Keyword(s):

Instrumental Variables ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Ethnic Heterogeneity ◽

Significant Positive Relationship ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

Ethnic Boundaries ◽

Ethnic Stratification ◽

The Impact ◽

Reversal Of Fortune

In the last 15 years, economists and economic historians have argued that Africa has undergone a “reversal of fortune” and that ethnic fragmentation is a significant cause of Africa's underdevelopment. In this article, we join these narratives by arguing that the transatlantic slave trade increased the degree of ethnic heterogeneity in Africa today. Using both correlational and causal instrumental variables analysis, we find an economically and statistically significant positive relationship between slave exports and ethnic heterogeneity. This relationship is robust to changes in the scheme for drawing ethnic boundaries and the choice of observational unit.

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The American and West Indian Trades

The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9780986497384.003.0013 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 257-288

Author(s):

Ralph Davis

Keyword(s):

West Indies ◽

Slave Trade ◽

The West ◽

North West ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

Transatlantic Trade ◽

Anglo American ◽

Navigation Acts ◽

The Impact ◽

American Trade

This chapter explores trade between Britain, America, and the West Indies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It identifies the two types of English settlement in America - the plantation colonies and the farm colonies, then details each of their approaches to the shipping trade. It also traces the growth of the sugar and tobacco trades and the shift toward North-West tobacco shipping over London. Other essential developments include the impact of the Navigation Acts on Anglo-American trade; the rise of tobacco smuggling in Liverpool and Glasgow; the effects of crop seasonality on transatlantic trade; and the workings of the transatlantic slave trade, particularly through the port of Liverpool. It includes shipping statistics and contemporary correspondence to provide further detail about the structure of transatlantic trade.

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Crisis, 1859–1867

The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867 ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300212419.003.0007 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Leonardo Marques

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Slave Trade ◽

The Political ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

Political Implications ◽

The Impact ◽

The U.S

Chapter 7 looks at the political implications of U.S. involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. It shows how different parties dealt with the growing accusations of U.S. involvement in the traffic during the crisis of the 1850s and the impact of the U.S. Civil War on its suppression.

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Clever drummers, primitivism, entrepreneurialism, and the invention of the trap drummer’s outfit

Kick It ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190683863.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 9-54

Author(s):

Matt Brennan

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Performance Practice ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Musical Culture ◽

Snare Drum ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

Ensemble Performance ◽

The Status ◽

History Of ◽

The Impact

This chapter documents the prehistory of drum kit performance practice and the invention of the trap drummer’s outfit. First, it examines the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on American musical culture. Second, it explores the history of the snare drum, bass drum, and cymbals, and how they come together in ensemble performance. Third, it discusses the emergence of highbrow and lowbrow culture and the consequences for the status of drummers. Fourth, it discusses the types of music that a drummer was likely to play working in nineteenth-century USA. Fifth, it examines the tinkerers, inventors, and entrepreneurs who developed the key components of the early drum kit, known in its time as the ‘trap drummer’s outfit’.

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Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen

Yoruba Studies Review ◽

10.32473/ysr.v5i1.2.130081 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1.2) ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Emmanuel Adeniyi

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Model ◽

African Diaspora ◽

New World ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

Cultural Codes ◽

Fait Accompli ◽

Supreme Deity

Studies in African Diaspora ofen privilege the transatlantic slavery, Columbus’ discovery of the New World, and African cultural codes in the Americas. To expand the scope of the studies, this article examines the metaphysical and ontological questions on the enslavement of the Yorùbá – an African ethno-nation whose members were condemned to slavery and servitude in the Americas during the inglorious transatlantic slave trade. I used metaphysical fatalism as a theoretical model to interrogate prognostications about dispersion of the Yorùbá from their matrix as expressed in their mythology. Being a predestining agent, I examined the role of orí (destiny) within the context of rigid fatalism and its textualisation in Prince Justice’s Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen. The article argues that the transatlantic enslavement of the Yorùbá is a fait accompli willed by their Supreme Deity. Tough traumatic, transatlantic slavery reworlded Yorùbá cultural codes, birthed the Atlantic sub-group of the ethno-nation, and aided the emergence of Yorùbá-centric religions in the New World.

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Introduction

Envoys of abolition ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620788.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Mary Wills

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Slave Trade ◽

National Character ◽

Napoleonic Wars ◽

Royal Navy ◽

The West ◽

British Identity ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

The Impact

This chapter situates the activities of the West Africa squadron within several interconnected themes and contexts relating to the impact of the Britain’s Abolition Act of 1807. Britain’s abolitionist cause was regarded as an indicator of the national character, dedicated to morality, humanitarianism and freedom, and naval suppression fitted neatly into this narrative. The role of the Royal Navy in enforcing the 1807 Act transformed notions of British identity and evolving ideas of imperialism on the international stage. This chapter positions the book within the existing literature on the nineteenth-century campaign against the transatlantic slave trade, the role of the Royal Navy in the post-Napoleonic Wars period, and the British role in Africa more widely.

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