The Forgotten Diaspora : Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Two Sephardic communities on Senegal's Petite Cote; 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.