Making money : life, death, and early modern trade on Africa's Guinea Coast /
Colleen E. Kriger.
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource
- Africa in world history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. Atlantic lives : Anglo-African trade in northern Guinea -- Buyers and sellers in cross-cultural trade -- "Artificers" and merchants : making and moving goods -- West Africans profiting in Atlantic trade -- Company property : captives, rebels, and grometos -- Free agents and local hires : managing men in northern Guinea -- Conclusion. Anglo-African relations.
A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change.