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Walter Rodney
Researcher at University of the West Indies
Publications - 28
Citations - 3258
Walter Rodney is an academic researcher from University of the West Indies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Atlantic slave trade & Historiography. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 28 publications receiving 3052 citations. Previous affiliations of Walter Rodney include University of Dar es Salaam.
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Robert W. Shenton,Walter Rodney +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of the European slave trade in African underdevelopment and its role in the development of the African economy from the pre-colonial period up to the early 20th century.
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A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800
TL;DR: Rodney is revered throughout the Caribbean as a teacher, a hero, and a martyr as mentioned in this paper, and his book remains the foremost work on the region's history and its people.
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African Slavery and other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade
TL;DR: In the Upper Guinea Coast region between the Gambia and Cape Mount, this article found that the majority of the slaves were living in a state of servitude, and the native chiefs did not have far to seek for the human merchandise.
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A history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905
TL;DR: A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 as mentioned in this paper provides an original, well-informed, and perceptive contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century guyanese society, emphasizing the destructive fragmentation of the working class along ethnic, political, and social lines.