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Africa and the Africans

Disciplines:
history
africa
history/atlantic world
history/thornton

Summary

John Thornton's revisionist history of Africa and Africans in the Atlantic world — arguing that Africans were active agents in the Atlantic slave trade and that African military power, culture, and decision-making shaped the development of the Americas.

Core Contribution

Restores African agency in Atlantic history — Thornton demonstrates that African rulers and merchants were active participants in and beneficiaries of the slave trade rather than passive victims, and that African cultural and military contributions shaped the Americas far more than previously recognized.

Historical Influences

John Thornton

Intellectual Lineage

John Thornton Cambridge University Press

Allied Works

African Founders Africa

Contemporaries & Peers

Africa African Founders

Minds Influenced

African history Atlantic history History 102

Intellectual Posterity

Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World African agency thesis

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