Guinea-Bissau, West Africa (Geographic Keyword)
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Topographies of the slave trade along the Cacheu River, Guinea-Bissau, 16th – 19th centuries. (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cacheu was one of the largest Senegambian ports involved in the transatlantic trade of enslaved people. After the 1830s, despite abolitionist efforts, clandestine traders encouraged the emergence of illegal trade sites away from the control of colonial authorities, and slavery persisted. Some of those sites are now occupied by...