Author:

Guerrero, Saul  Search this

Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this

Subject:

William Davenport & Co  Search this

Type:

Articles

Place:

Africa

Italy

Venice

Africa, West

Date:

2010

Notes:

Tables, graphs.

Abstract, pages 52.

In the 18th century, the Liverpool firm of William Davenport & Co. exported large quantities of Venetian glass beads for barter in the African slave trade. In doing so, they helped prop up the Venetian glass bead industry. This essay opens the ledgers of William Davenport & Co. to examine how these beads were bought and bartered from Venice to Liverpool to Africa.

Topic:

Venetian glass beads  Search this

Trade beads  Search this

Beadmaking industry  Search this

Glass beads--Statistics  Search this

Slave trade  Search this

Call number:

NK3650 .B365

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_964265