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Article: Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.(Review)
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- September 22, 1999
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BOUBACAR BARRY, Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. African Studies 92, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 358 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 59226 7 hard covers, 15.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 59760 9 paperback.
The conscientiously translated English version of Boubacar Barry's La Senegambie du XVe au XIXe siecle: traite negriere, Islam et conquete coloniale is as pointed and as vivid a synthesis of Senegambian history before the twentieth century as the French-language original. Barry approaches the subject with a definite purpose--to convince the reader that the balkanisation of the region has split the strength of its people. `A ...