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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: forgotten diaspora
    sub title: Jewish communities in West Africa and the making of the Atlantic world
  name:
    name part: Mark, Peter
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Horta, José da Silva.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Two Sephardic communities on Senegal's Petite Côte -- 2. Jewish identity in Senegambia -- 3. Religious interaction: Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in early 17th-century Upper Guinea -- 4. The blade weapons trade in seventeenth-century West Africa -- 5. The Luso-African ivories as historical source for the weapons trade and for the Jewish presence in Guinea of Cape Verde -- 6. The later years: merchant mobility and the evolution of identity -- Conclusion -- Appendix I -- Appendix II.
  note: Peter Mark, José da Silva Horta.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sg---
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Senegal
    geographic: Petite Coast
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Senegal
    geographic: Petite Coast
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Sephardim
    geographic: Senegal
    geographic: Petite Coast
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Sephardim
    geographic: Senegal
    geographic: Petite Coast
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Marranos
    geographic: Senegal
    geographic: Petite Coast
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Marranos
    geographic: Senegal
    geographic: Petite Coast
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    geographic: Petite Coast (Senegal)
    topic: Ethnic relations
  classification: DS135.S34 M37 2011
  classification: 305.892/40663
  identifier: 9780521192866 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521192862 (hardback)
  identifier: 2010044677
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 101018
    record change date: 20151202120911.0
    record identifier: in00002659251