ABSTRACT This article details the factors that enabled the creation and maintenance of a transatlantic trade in West African textiles (panos da costa). At the end of the eighteenth century, the transformation of slave and textile trading routes in the Bight of Benin, the granting of trading privileges as compensation for enslaved and freed African mariners who labored aboard slaving ships, and the emergence of a commercial infrastructure in Bahia based on a network of African and Afro-Brazilian shopkeepers and mobile vendors who provisioned Salvador’s residents collectively generated this uniquely African commodity exchange. Through the purposeful circulation and consumption of West African textiles, enslaved and freed Africans in the city forged communal and cultural ties and inscribed their bodies with new meanings and social identities through dress, making these imported material goods a crucial site of black intellectual production in the early modern diaspora.

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跨大西洋意义之线：1770 年至 1870 年萨尔瓦多·达巴伊亚的西非纺织企业

摘要 本文详细介绍了促成和维持西非纺织品 (panos da costa) 跨大西洋贸易的因素。18 世纪末，贝宁湾奴隶和纺织品贸易路线的改造，给予贸易特权作为对在奴隶船上劳动的被奴役和释放的非洲水手的补偿，以及巴伊亚商业基础设施的出现基于为萨尔瓦多居民提供食物的非洲和非洲裔巴西店主和移动供应商网络共同创造了这种独特的非洲商品交易所。通过有目的地流通和消费西非纺织品，