The Atlantic slave trade and its abolition created two distinct commercial spaces on the Gambia River that represent the use of similar tactics to project socioeconomic identities at different points in the Atlantic trade that are compared in this paper. First, the trading village of Juffure, at the heart of the Niumi polity’s commercial center, gained prominence during the height of the trade in the eighteenth century. It became home to a multiethnic community whose residents were entangled to varying degrees in commerce. Community members asserted status and identity through material means that were based in established traditions of crafting and feasting. A second and distinct commercial space emerged at the city of Bathurst, which the British established following abolition in 1807. This new commercial center took shape with its own unique multiethnic community. At Bathurst the “Liberated Africans” utilized Western middle-class practices including meals to assert their identity as African elite. Thus, both the Liberated Africans and residents of Juffure used foodways to project specific identities to gain entry into commerce.

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废除前和废除后冈比亚河的服务状况

大西洋奴隶贸易及其废除在冈比亚河上创造了两个截然不同的商业空间，它们代表了本文比较的大西洋贸易不同点使用类似策略来投射社会经济特征。首先，位于 Niumi 政体商业中心核心的 Juffure 贸易村在 18 世纪贸易高峰期获得了突出地位。它成为一个多民族社区的家园，其居民在不同程度上与商业纠缠不清。社区成员通过基于既定的手工艺和盛宴传统的物质手段来维护地位和身份。第二个独特的商业空间出现在巴瑟斯特市，英国人在 1807 年废除后建立了该市。这个新的商业中心形成了自己独特的多民族社区。在巴瑟斯特，“解放的非洲人”利用西方中产阶级的做法，包括膳食来维护他们作为非洲精英的身份。因此，解放的非洲人和 Juffure 的居民都使用饮食方式来投射特定的身份以进入商业。