An African Family Archive: The Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841-1938Adam Jones, Peter Sebald OUP/British Academy, 22 Sep 2005 - 566 halaman Conventional accounts of the Scramble for Africa tend to focus on European diplomacy and acts of African 'resistance'. We rarely find detailed accounts of what it meant to individual Africans to be turned almost overnight into colonial subjects. An African Family Archive presents a unique case: a letterbook ('Grand Livre Lolame') written in English by the Lawsons of Aneho, a small town on the coast of Togo. Although the Lawsons were not the only family in Africa to have kept an archive since the mid-nineteenth century, this is probably the first attempt to publish such a source in its entirety. This fascinating collection of over 700 documents allows us to follow the Lawsons week by week through events such as the transition from participation in the Atlantic slave trade to 'legitimate trade' and the efforts of King G. A. Lawson III to prevent Aneho ("Little Popo") and its surroundings from becoming part of a French or German colony. The letterbook remains in the private possession of the Lawson family to this day. Containing documents ranging from the early nineteenth to early twentieth centuries this volume sheds significant light on this period and will be of essential interest to students and researchers of African history. |
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184153 | 1 |
185477 | 77 |
Introduction | 175 |
Documents | 182 |
1884 | 242 |
Introduction | 389 |
Introduction | 465 |
Documents | 471 |
Introduction | 485 |
Appendices | 507 |
Foreign firms and traders at Little Popo in the early 1880s | 514 |
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An African Family Archive: The Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841-1938 Adam Jones,Peter Sebald Tampilan cuplikan - 2005 |
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Accra Adjido Agoué Ahkurst Ahguay Ajavon Akwete Albert Wilson Anecho arrived Badagry Ben Lawson Black Christmas British caboceer canoe Cantaloup Cape Coast Capt Captain Chief compliments Consul copy cowries Creppy dear Sir document England English Esqr Excellency Factory father Freetown French G. A. Lawson 3rd G. L. Lawson Esq Gayibor George Latty Lawson George Lawson German Ghezo Gliji Gold Coast Colony Gomez Government Governor Young Grand Popo Hansen honour hope Hutton Jehowey King G. A. Lawson King John Mensah King Lawson King of Little Lagos land Lawson Junior letter Little Popo Sir London Palace Marmon merchants messenger Messrs Ouidah palm oil Pedro Quadjoe Porto Seguro Quittah Randad received remain yours truly S. B. Cole sent Sierra Leone slave sorry Souza thanks Togo town trade treaty truly J. H. Ahkurst W. T. G. Lawson Whydah William Lawson Wilson