Socio-political change on a slave-raiding frontier: War, trade and 'big men' in nineteenth century Sisalaland, Northern Ghana

Journal of Conflict Archaeology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 265-293

  Swanepoel, Natalie ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 61949320181     PISSN: 15740773     EISSN: 15740781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157407705774928999     Document Type: Review

References (100)

1. National Archives, London: CO 96 series Ghana Regional Archives, Tamale: ADM series
2. Alexander, J. 2001: 'Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa', World Archaeology 33 (1), 44-60
3. Alpern, S. 1995: 'What Africans got for their slaves: a master list of European trade goods', History in Africa 22, 5-43
4. Anquandah, J. 1995: 'Archaeological studies related to the slave trade in Ghana and implications for tourism development', in The Slave Route Project Conference Development of a Cultural Tourism Programme for Africa, 57-64. WTTO Conference Proceedings, Ghana
5. Apentiik, R. 1997: Bulsa Technologies and Systems of Thought. Unpublished MA thesis. University of Calgary: Canada
6. Arhin, K. 1967: 'The structure of Greater Ashanti (1700-1824)', Journal of African History 8 (1), 65-85
7. -. 1977: 'The Economic and social significance of rubber production and exchange on the Gold and Ivory Coasts, 1880-1900', Cahiers d'Études africaines xx (1-2), 49-62
8. Arhin, K. and Ki-Zerbo J. 1989: 'States and peoples of the Niger Bend and the Volta', in Ajayi, J. (ed.) General History of Africa vi: Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s, 662-698. UNESCO: California
9. Austin, G. 1995: 'Between abolition and Jihad: the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807-1896', in Law, R. (ed.) From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate Commerce': the Commercial Transition in Nineteenth Century West Africa, 93-118. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
10. Berberich, C. 1974: A Locational Analysis of Trade Routes of the North-East Asante Trade Network. Ph.D. Northwestern University. Xerox University Microfilm, Ann Arbor, Michigan
11. Boateng, E. 1967: A Geography of Ghana. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
12. Bonnat, M. 1876: 'The trade in Salaga before 1874', in Johnson, M. (ed.) Salaga Papers: acc. No. SAL/34/3: 9. Unpublished collection
13. Bourdier, J. and Minh-ha, T. 1985: African Spaces: Designs for Living in Upper Volta. Africana Publishing Company: New York
14. Bredwa-Mensah, Y. 2002: Historical Archaeological Investigations at the Frederiksgrave Plantation, Ghana: A Case Study of Slavery and Plantation Life on a Nineteenth Century Danish Plantation on the Gold Coast. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Ghana: Legon
15. Brown, D. 1984: 'Warfare, oracles and iron: A case study of production among the pre-colonial Klowe, in the light of some recent Marxist analyses', Africa 54 (2), 29-47
16. Cardinall, A. 1924: The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast: their Customs, Religion and Folklore. Negro Universities Press, New York
17. Chalfin, B. 2001: 'Border zone trade and the economic boundaries of the state in North East Ghana', Africa 71 (2), 202-23
18. Cordell, D. 1986: 'Warlords and enslavement: a sample of slave-raiders from eastern Ubang-Shari, 1870-1920', in Lovejoy, P. (ed.) Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade, 335-65. University of Wisconsin-Madison: Madison
19. Curtin, P. 1975: Economic Change in Pre-colonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison
20. Curtin, P. and Vansina, J. 1964: 'Sources of the nineteenth century slave trade', Journal of African History 5 (2), 185-91
21. de Barros, P. 2001: 'The effect of the slave trade on the Bassar Iron-working Society, Togo', in DeCorse, C. (ed.) West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, 132-74, Leicester University Press: London
22. DeCorse, C. 1983: Fortified Towns of the Koinadagu Plateau: Ethnoarchaeological Research in North-Eastern Sierra Leone. Unpublished M.A. thesis, UCLA: Los Angeles
23. -. 2001a: An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900. Smithsonian University Press: Washington
24. -. 2001b: 'Introduction', in DeCorse, C. (ed.) West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, 1-13, Leicester University Press: London
25. Der, B. 1998: The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana. Woeli Publishing Services: Ghana
26. Diouf, S. (ed.) 2002: Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Ohio University Press: Athens
27. Dumett, R. and Johnson, M. 1988: 'Britain and the suppression of slavery in the Gold Coast Colony, Ashanti and the Northern Territories', in Roberts, R. and Miers, S. (eds.) The End of Slavery in Africa, 71-116. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison
28. Echenberg, M. 1971: 'Late nineteenth century military technology in Upper Volta', Journal of African History xii (2), 241-54
29. Earle, T. 2002: Bronze Age Economics: The Beginnings of Political Economies. Westview Press: Boulder
30. Fardon, R. 1988: Raiders and Refugees. Smithsonian University Press: Washington
31. Ferguson, G. 1974: The Papers of George Ekem Ferguson: a Fanti Official of the Government of the Gold Coast, 1890-1897, K. Arhin (ed.). African Studies Centre: Cambridge
32. Ferguson, R. and Whitehead, N. 1992: 'The violent edge of empire', in Ferguson, R. and Whitehead, N. (eds.) War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare, 1-30. School of American Research Press: New Mexico
33. Ferguson, P. and Wilks, I. 1970: 'Chiefs, constitutions and the British in northern Ghana' in Crowder, M. and Ikeme, O. (eds.) West African Chiefs: their Changing Status under Colonial Rule and Independence, 326-69. Africana Publishing Company, New York
34. Fortes, M. and Evans-Pritchard, E. 1958: [1940] 'Introduction', in Fortes, M. and Evans-Pritchard, E. (eds.) African Political Systems, 1-24. Oxford University Press: London
35. Fortes, M. and Fortes, S. 1936: 'Food in the domestic economy of the Tallensi', Africa 9 (2), 237-49
36. Garrard, T. 1986: Brass-casting among the Frafra of Northern Ghana, Vol. I. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California: Los Angeles
37. Gemery, H. and Hogendorn, J. (eds.) 1979: The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Academic Press: New York
38. General Staff 1906: Route Book of the Gold Coast Colony, Ashanti and the Northern Territories, Vol II. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London
39. Goody, J. 1965: 'Introduction', in Goody, J and Arhin, K. (eds.) Ashanti and the North-West. Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana: Legon
40. -. 1967: The Social Organisation of the LoWiili. Oxford University Press: Oxford
41. -. 1971: Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa. Oxford University Press: London
42. -. 1978: 'Population and polity in the Voltaic region', in Friedman, J. and Rowlands, M. (eds.) The Evolution of Social Systems, 535-45. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh
43. Grindal, B. 1972: 'An ethnographic classification of the Sisala of Northern Ghana', Ethnology xi (4), 409-24
44. Gronenborn, D. 2001: 'Kanem-Borno: A brief summary of the history and archaeology of an empire of the Central bilad al-sudan' in DeCorse, C. (ed.) West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, 108-36. Leicester University Press: London
45. Hawkins, S. 2002: Writing and Colonialism: the Encounter between the LoDagaa and "The World on Paper". University of Toronto Press: Toronto
46. Hawthorne 2001: 'Nourishing a stateless society during the slave-trade: the rise of Balanta paddy-rice production in Guinea-Bissau', Journal of African History 42, 1-24
47. -. 2003: Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900. Heinemann: Portsmouth, NY
48. Holden, J. 1969: 'The Samorian impact on Buna and Bonduku', Fieldnotes: Bole-Buna-Bonduku Project. Interdisciplinary Seminar in Field Methods. University of Ghana and Program of African Studies, Northwestern University: Chicago
49. Holl, A. 2001: '500 years in the Cameroons: making sense of the archaeological record', in DeCorse, C. (ed.) West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, 316-68. Leicester University Press: London
50. Howard, A. 1972: Big Men, Traders and Chiefs: Power, Commerce and Spatial Change in the Sierra-Leone-Guinea System. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin: Madison
51. Hubbell, A. 1997: Patronage and Predation: a Social History of Colonial Chieftaincies in a Chiefless Region - Souroudougou (Burkina Faso), 1850-1946. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University: Stanford
52. -. 2001: 'A view of the slave trade from the margin: Souroudougou in the late nineteenth century slave trade of the Niger Bend', Journal of African History 42, 25-47
53. Johnson, M. 1976: 'The Atlantic Slave Trade and the economy of West Africa', in Anstey, R. and Hair, P. (eds.) Liverpool, the African Slave Trade and Abolition, 14-38. Historic society of Lancanshire and Cheschire Occasional Series, volume 2
54. -. 1986: 'The slaves of Salaga', Journal of African History 27 (2), 341-62
55. Kankpeyeng, B. 2003: The Archaeology of Kpaliworgu: A Case Study of Culture Continuity and Change in Northern Ghana before 1900. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University: Syracuse
56. Kelly, K. 1997: 'The Archaeology of African-European interaction: investigating the social role of trade, traders and the use of space in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Benin', World Archaeology 28 (3), 351-69
57. Kense, F. 1992: 'Settlement and livelihood in Mampurugu, northern Ghana: some archaeological reflections', in Sterner, J. and David, N. (eds) An African Commitment. 143-55. University of Calgary Press: Calgary
58. Kiyaga-Mulindwa, D. 1982: 'Social and demographic changes in the Birim Valley, Southern Ghana, c. 1450 to c. 1800', Journal of African History 23 (1), 63-82
59. Klein, M. 2001: 'The slave trade and decentralised societies', Journal of African History 42, 49-65
60. -. 2003: 'Defensive strategies: Wasulu, Masina and the slave trade', in Diouf, S. (ed.) Fighting the Slav.e Trade: West African Strategies. 62-80. Ohio University Press: Athens
61. Klose, G. 1964: Klose's Journey to Northern Ghana, 1894. (trans I Killick). Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana: Legon
62. Kuba, R. and Lentz, C. 'Arrows and earth shrines: towards a history of Dagara expansion in southern Burkina Faso', Journal of African History 43, 377-406
63. Kupoe, F. 1998: 'The impact of the slave trade on the Kasena' in Howell, A. (ed.) The Slave Trade and Reconciliation: A Northern Ghanaian Perspective. Bible Church of Ghana, Navrongo: Ghana
64. Kusimba, C. 2004: 'Archaeology of slavery in East Africa', African Archaeological Review 21 (2), 59-88
65. La Chard, L. 1905: 'The arrow-poisons of northern Nigeria', Journal of the Royal African Society 5, 22-27
66. Law, R. (ed.) 1995: From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate Commerce': the Commercial Transition in Nineteenth Century West Africa. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
67. -. 1997: 'Ethnicity and the slave trade: "Lucumi" and "Nago" as ethnonyms in West Africa', History in Africa 24, 205-19
68. Lentz, C. 2000: 'Of hunters, goats and earth-shrines: settlement histories and the politics of oral traditions in northern Ghana', History in Africa 27, 193-214
69. Levtzion, N. 1968: Muslims and Chiefs in West Africa: a Study of Islam in the Middle Volta Basin in the pre-Colonial Period. Clarendon Press: Oxford
70. Lovejoy, P. 1983: Transformations in Slavery: a History of Slavery in Africa. African Studies Series 36. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
71. MacEachern, S. 1993: 'Selling the iron for their shackles: Wandala-Montagnard interactions in northern Cameroon', Journal of African History 34, 247-70
72. -. 2001: 'State formation and enslavement in the southern Chad Basin', in DeCorse, C. (ed.) West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, 136-53. Leicester University Press: London
73. Maier, D. 1983: Priests and Power: the Case of the Dente Shrine in Nineteenth Century Ghana. Indiana University Press: Bloomington
74. -. 1990: 'The military acquisition of slaves in Asante', in Henige, D. and McCaskie, T. (eds.) West African Economic and Social History. Studies in Memory of Marion Johnson. African Studies Programme, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Madison
75. Manoukian, M. 1951: Tribes of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. International African Institute: London
76. Mathewson, R. 1968: 'Some notes on the settlement mounds of central Gonja', Research Review 4 (2), 108-114
77. McIntosh, S. 2001: 'Tools for understanding transformation and continuity in Senegambian society. With a contribution by Ibrahim Thiaw', in DeCorse, C. (ed.) West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives. 29-87. Leicester University Press: London
78. Meillassoux, C. 1991: The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago
79. Mendonsa, E. 1975: 'Traditional and imposed systems among the Sisala of northern Ghana', Savanna 14 (2), 103-115
80. -. 1979: 'Economic, residential and ritual fission of Sisala domestic groups, Ghana', Africa 49 (4), 388-407
81. -. 1982: The Politics of Divination: a Processual View of Reactions to Illness and Deviance among the Sisala of Northern Ghana. University of California Press: Berkeley
82. -. 2001: Continuity and Change in a West African Society: Globalization's Impact on the Sisala of Ghana. Carolina Academic Press: Durham
83. -. 2002: West Africa: an Introduction to its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation. Carolina Academic Press: Durham
84. Miers, S. and Kopytoff, I. (eds.) 1999: Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa. 133-48. Frank Kass: Portland
85. Moseley, K. 1992: 'Caravel and Caravan: West Africa and the world-economies, ca. 900-1900 AD', Review xv (3), 523-55
86. Pilaszewicz, S. 1992: The Zabarma Conquest of North-West Ghana and Upper Volta: A Hausa Narrative. "Histories of Samory and Babatu and others" by Mallam Abu. Polish Scientific Publishers: Warsaw
87. Prussin, L. 1969: Architecture in Northern Ghana: a Study of Forms and Functions. University of California Press: Berkeley
88. Rattray, R. 1932: Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland. Oxford University Press: London
89. Reyna, S. 1994: 'Predatory accumulation and religious conflict in the early nineteenth century Chad Basin' in Reyna, S. and Downs, R. (eds.) Studying War: Anthropological Perspectives. 127-55. Gordon and Breach: United States
90. Roberts, R. 1980: 'Production and reproduction of warrior states: Segu Bambara and Segu Tokolor, c. 1712-1890', International Journal of African Historical Studies 13 (3), 389-419
91. Swanepoel, N. 2003: 'A report on archaeological investigations of the fortified site of Yalingbong in Upper West Region, Ghana: 2001-2002 fieldwork' Nyame Akuma 60, 2-7
92. -. 2004: Too Much Power is not Good: War and Trade in Nineteenth Century Sisalaland, Northern Ghana, Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University: Syracuse
93. Tamakloe, E. 1931: 'The mythical and traditional history of the Dagomba', in Cardinall, A. (ed.) Tales told in Togoland. Negro Universities Press: Westport
94. Tengan, E. 1991: The Land as Being and Cosmos: The Institution of the Earth Cult among the Sisala of North-Western Ghana. Peter Lang: New York
95. Trimingham, J. 1962: A History of Islam in West Africa. Oxford University Press: London
96. Usman, A. 1998: State-periphery Relations and Socio-political Development in Igbominaland, North-Central Yoruba, Nigeria. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University: Arizona
97. Waddy, B. 1980: 'A district medical officer in north-west Ghana', in Sabben-Clare, E., Bradley, D. and Kirkwood, K. (eds.) Health in Tropical Africa during the Colonial Period. 159-65. Clarendon Press: Oxford
98. Watson, J. (ed.) 1980: Asian and African Systems of Slavery. University of California Press: Berkley
99. Williamson, T. 2000: Gold Coast Diaries: Chronicles of Political Officers in West Africa. The Radcliffe Press: London
100. Wilks, I. 1989: Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in North-Western Ghana. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge