Abstract
When discussing African memories of slavery and the slave trade, it should be borne in mind that these themes are linked not only to the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade but also to the history of local communities before and after the development of Atlantic commercial networks. Along the River Gambia, which is one of the major waterways of the West African coast, slavery and the slave trade predated the arrival of the Portuguese in the second half of the fi fteenth century, and continued after the British banning of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807. Internal enslavement ended with colonization in the late-nineteenth century, when the British administration promulgated two antislavery ordinances. The fi rst was issued in 1894, immediately after the creation of the British Protectorate of the Gambia, and the second in 1906 with the annexation of the Eastern part of the country. Slavery fi nally legally ended only in 1930 when all local slaves were declared free.1
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