The Atlantic Slave Trade seems to be a recurring topic of research in this class, regardless author Michael Gomez in his work Exchanging our Country Marks<\/em> describes the vast amount of ethnic diversity that was present up and down the western coast of Africa that would later lead to the vast ethnic diversity of enslaved peoples in the Americas. He pays particular attention to the complex social structures of the various African peoples and how they were able to interact with each other despite those complexities. Gomez also describes the secret societies that were present in Sierra Leone that seemed to function similar to an organization like our CIA. These organizations took care of matters using very clandestine methods in order to keep secret \u201cactivies or information that was best kept out of the public domain\u201d (pg 95).<\/p>\n

As my fellow classmate Hunter<\/a> pointed out Gomez describes these West African societies as egalitarian providing woman with a place in society. Parallels between this work and Brook’s work are easily drawn as they both deal with examples of African Tribes that were perceived as inferior by Europeans at the time accomplishing great things. This is true of both the ecological exploitation of the Mande people and the Secret Societies of the peoples of Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n

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