List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Twelve Measures of New Cloth and a Magnificent Bubu: Bamanan Kaarta between Sahel and Sea
Chapter 2 Cotton Cloth in Western Africa: Barafulas, Bafetas, and Piezas de India
Chapter 3 Centering the Sahel in the Early Eighteenth Century: Indigo Dyers, Precarity, and the Pull of the Faleme River Valley, 1730–1750
Chapter 4 The Politics of Dress at Saint-Louis during an Age of Islamic Revolution, 1785–1815
Chapter 5 Merchants, Maroons, Mahdis, and Migrants on the Upper Guinea Coast, 1795–1825
Chapter 6 Textures of a Changing Era: Old Redcoats, Groundnuts, and Afro-Atlantic Missionaries, 1825–1850
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index