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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The subject of my communication concerns the policy of repression of the illicit slave trade on the Senegambian seaboard. After three centuries of practice of a commercial activity based on the slave economy, the nineteenth century promises to be very complicated for the actors of the so-called Atlantic trade because of the major reforms...
Investigations Into a Mid 20th Century Senegalese Pirogue and the Development of the Senegambian Boat Building Tradition (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the late 1960s, a British “adventurer” purchased a small fishing boat from Senegal, used it to build a catamaran, and then sailed across the Atlantic to the US. This presentation studies the original construction of the dugout canoe, known colloquially in Senegal as a pirogue. This term, broadly applied to numerous local, vernacular...
Topographies of the slave trade along the Cacheu River, Guinea-Bissau, 16th – 19th centuries. (2023)
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...