An edition of An African family archive (2005)
An African Family Archive: The Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841-1938 (Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History)
By Adam Jones,Peter Sebald
Publish Date
March 20, 2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
eng
Pages
579
Description:
"This is a rare and detailed account of what it meant to individual Africans to be turned almost overnight into colonial subjects in the nineteenth century." "The Lawson family of Aneho, a small town on the coast of Togo, possesses a letterbook of 718 documents in English, and this is the first attempt to publish such a source in its entirety. The correspondence dates mainly from the periods 1841-77 (relating to the transition from the Atlantic slave trade to 'legitimate trade', mainly in palm oil) and 1883-85 (a period dominated by the efforts of King G. A. Lawson III to prevent Aneho and its surroundings from becoming part of a French or German colony.)" "The volume also contains documents from the early twentieth century, including some illuminating pieces of local historiography. The documents are framed by a comprehensive editorial apparatus."--BOOK JACKET.