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Crossroads and Exchanges in the Scandinavian Atlantic and Atlantic West Africa: Framing Texts of Eighteenth-Century African Christians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2019

Abstract

The interconnectedness of Atlantic West Africa and the Scandinavian Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries exemplifies an entangled or shared history (histoire croisée). The present article maintains that in the context of the brutal transatlantic chattel trade this history manifests different historical trajectories as well as the temporality of episodic events and structural duration that are configured in the divergent itineraries of two eighteenth-century African Christians. Their texts and life histories reveal them as purveyors of intertwined Christian and non-Christian cultural codes and discursive fields, in one case according to a plantation-colony itinerary and in the other according to a world-port itinerary. The complex social realities of multiple texts and material cultures did not operate independently of socioeconomic structures intertwined with Atlantic world circuits.

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Ray Kea is professor emeritus and has taught African history at the University of California at Riverside (1991–2013), Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges (1980 and 1991), and Johns Hopkins University (1971–1980). Earlier, he taught at Mawuli and Tema Secondary Schools in Ghana (1960–1968). In 1967, he received his MA degree from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana and his PhD in 1974 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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