Description: An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the Euro-African encounter.
Review Quotes: Among the very few existing edited books focusing specifically on African women, this outstanding volume will interest professors and both graduate and undergraduate students of African history and African diaspora history. Likewise, African Women in the Atlantic World will become a mandatory reading to scholars of different disciplines whose works focus on women in Africa.--African Studies Review