Marie Leszczynska
Marie Leszczynska , 1703-68, queen of France, wife of Louis XV, and daughter of Stanislaus I of Poland. Married in 1725, she bore 10 children and was the grandmother of Louis XVI. Of retiring disposition, she made no attempt to rival the king's mistresses. Her marriage facilitated French involvement in the War of the Polish Succession.
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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Boubacar...to publish, focuses on the greater Senegambia region, broadly defined to include...changes that occurred in the entire Senegambia. This method is more comprehensive...
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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Boubacar Barry. (Cambridge...Barry consistently refers to this whole region of "Greater Senegambia" as Senegambia. The second thesis is that the transatlantic slave trade dominated...
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History and identity in Senegambia and on the upper Guinea Coast.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Africa; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Luso-African Identity: precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries...identities in the coastal reaches of Senegambia and Upper Guinea. But none of the three...Eurafrican population across coastal Senegambia and Upper Guinea from the sixteenth...
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Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.(Review)
Magazine article from: Africa; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; BOUBACAR BARRY, Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. African Studies 92, Cambridge...lay persons, well supported by statistical and qualitative data. Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade is the first volume in a planned two...
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Seven-year itch. (Senegambia) (International)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/26/1989; 700+ words
; Senegambia Seven-year itch THE shotgun wedding between Senegal and the Gambia, in 1982, was meant to create the "confederation of Senegambia". The marriage was never consummated, and now, amid abuse, Senegal...
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"Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. Bloomington: Indiana...the Slave Trade: Dioula Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia (Oxford, 1999) also comes to mind. With so much at stake...
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New York Descendant of Goree Island Slaves Returns to Africa
Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Sentinel; 1/4/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...lived free in the area called Senegambia, before they were transferred...Senegal's scholars describe Senegambia as the geographic region between...the Songhay were founded in the Senegambia region. Senegambia was the main...
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Slave descendants come home
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 12/17/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...lived free in the area called Senegambia, before they were transferred...SENEGAL'S SCHOLARS describe Senegambia as the geographic region between...the Songhay were founded in the Senegambia region. Senegambia was the main...
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Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...slavery, were probably Muslims from Senegambia who proved to be most formidable in...languages and cultures, with connections to Senegambia, Islam, or both." Despite fears...world. For many centuries, Islam in Senegambia, and elsewhere in West Africa, remained...
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TWO EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SEPHARDIC COMMUNITIES ON SENEGAL'S PETITE COTE
Magazine article from: History In Africa; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...significance of the Portuguese archives for Senegambia, a region generally considered within...on the history of the LusoAfricans in Senegambia and the Guinea of Cape Verde.3 Mark...Portuguese New Christians and Jews in Senegambia. The main documents in this group are...
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Senegambia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Senegambia , short-lived (1982-89) confederation of Senegal and The Gambia .
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Africans
Book article from: American Eras
...thousand miles long, stretching from the Senegambia River in the North to the Congo River...unwillingly settled in the New World. Senegambia. The region between the Senegal and...of the Sahara Desert, was known as Senegambia. This area was one of the first that...
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Gambia
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...larger British colony, the Province of Senegambia, which included present-day Senegal and Gambia. The Senegambia has the distinction of being the first...In 1969, Gambia and Senegal formed Senegambia, but in 1982 the confederation was...
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Senegal
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Britain expelled the French from Senegal and, in 1765, set up Senegambia, the first British colony in Africa. In 1783 France regained...1982, the two countries joined to form the Confederation of Senegambia, but the union collapsed in 1989. From 1989 to 1992, Senegal...
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Fulani
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Peuls LOCATION: From the western part of West Africa (Senegambia) to Chad in the east (some groups reaching as far as the...Fulani trace their beginnings back one thousand years to the Senegambia area. By the eighteenth century some had migrated as far...
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