Maps
Introduction. Severine's Ancestors
Chapter 1. Setting Up
Chapter 2. A Hybrid Position
Chapter 3. "What in Guinea You Promised Me"
Chapter 4. "Danish Christian Mulatresses"
Chapter 5. Familiar Circles
Epilogue. Edward Carstensen's Parenthesis
Notes
Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, Daughters of the Trade uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.
Pernille Ipsen is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and History at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"An important contribution that will appeal to a broad audience of
scholars who have an interest in the history of entanglements,
Africa, Europe, the Atlantic, gender, power relations, race and
society."—Itinerario
"A carefully researched and illuminating addition to scholarship on
Danish colonial history, the study of the Atlantic slave trade and
its impacts on African history, and scholarship on the making of
the Atlantic world."—American Historical Review
"Ipsen has opened a previously closed window. In the process, she
has provided us with an analysis of interracial marriage in the
Atlantic that bridges the early modern and modern, as well as the
precolonial and colonial, with significant implications for
interpretations of better known cases in the Dutch, French, and
British Atlantic."—African Studies Review
"Ipsen breaks welcome new ground. . . . This is an excellent, very
readable study that is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and
graduate students, and courses on the history of gender, sexuality
and racial dynamics in the Atlantic world."—Slavery & Abolition
"Daughters of the Trade is an important contribution to a growing
body of literature on interracial marriage and the mixed-race
communities that emerged on the African coast in the era of the
Atlantic slave trade. Scholars and students of the Atlantic world,
slavery and abolition, and West African slave-trade ports will find
a great deal to consider in this work, especially in terms of
methodology and analytical approach."—William & Mary Quarterly
"In this important and engaging study, Pernille Ipsen brings
vividly to life the mixed-race communities that flourished around
Danish forts on the West African coast. Her accessible work is full
of surprises and adds a human dimension to the often abstract
history of the slave trade, and the importance and originality of
her research has implications far beyond West Africa. A first-rate
achievement."—Randy J. Sparks, author of Where the Negroes Are
Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
"Daughters of the Trade represents the best of recent work that
seeks to problematize the formal conjugal relationships between
European men and African and Euro-African women that were such a
prominent feature of the trading cities and forts of coastal West
Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. In elucidating
the centrality of intimate relations in the trade and African
colonialism, Ipsen's graceful and intellectually lucid book will
almost certainly become the benchmark monograph on the
subject."—Emily Clark, author of The Strange History of the
American Quadroon
"In this carefully researched and beautifully written study,
Pernille Ipsen uses interracial marriages on the West African coast
to illustrate the very local construction of race and racial
consciousness in the Atlantic world. African women are at the heart
of this story—as wives, as traders, as mothers, and as daughters.
Women's lives have too often fallen to the margins, and Daughters
of the Trade forcefully argues that African women played crucial,
if complicated, roles in the development of the Atlantic
world."—Jennifer Morgan, New York University
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