ISBN:
9781107002968
,
9781139123259
,
9781283340878
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxiv, 381 p.)
Edition:
3rd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
African studies 117
Parallel Title:
Print version Transformations in Slavery : A History of Slavery in Africa
DDC:
306.3/62096
Keywords:
Slave trade History
;
Slavery History
;
Slave trade ; Africa ; History
;
Slavery ; Africa ; History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Transformations in Slavery; AFRICAN STUDIES; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and Tables; Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures; Preface; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; 1 Africa and Slavery; Slavery: A Definition; Slavery in Social Formations; The African Setting; The Islamic Factor; The Trans-Atlantic Trade; 2 On the Frontiers of Islam, 1400-1600; The Medieval Slave Trade: The African Frontier; The Institution of Slavery in Muslim Africa; Origins of the Atlantic Trade: The Muslim Connection; Slavery Along the Guinea Coast
Description / Table of Contents:
3 The Export Trade in Slaves, 1600-1800The Volume of the Export Trade, 1600-1800; The Dominance of West-Central Africa; The Bight of Benin, 1640-1800; The Gold Coast; The Bight of Biafra; The Upper Guinea Coast and Senegambia; The Volume of the Trade across the Sahara, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean; Demographic Implications of the Export Trade; 4 The Enslavement of Africans, 1600-1800; A Politically Fragmented Continent; The Muslim Tradition of War and State; Warlords of West-Central Africa; Politics of Slave Trading on the West African Coast; The Dynamics of Slave Supply
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The Organization of Slave Marketing, 1600-1800Muslim Networks; Administered Trade in West-Central Africa; Coastal West Africa: State Trade, River-Boats, and Oracles; Patterns in Restrictive Practices; Slaves and Other Commodities; The Import Trade; 6 Relationships of Dependency, 1600-1800; The Expansion of Slavery; The Northern Savanna; The West African Coast and its Interior; Slavery in West-Central Africa; European Slavery in Africa; 7 The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade; The Dynamics of Slavery in the Nineteenth Century; The Trans-Atlantic Trade: The Last Surge
Description / Table of Contents:
The Scale of the Nonslave TradeThe Trans-Saharan and Red Sea Trade; The East African Trade; The Internal Trade; 8 Slavery and "Legitimate Trade" on the West African Coast; Slavery and "Legitimate Trade"; The Western Coast and Asante; Dahomey and the Yoruba States; The Bight of Biafra; 9 Slavery in the Savanna during the Era of the Jihads; The Size of the Slave Population in the Savanna; The Western Sudan; The Central Sudan; The Region East of Lake Chad; The Organization of the Plantation Sector; Slavery in the Sahel; Assimilation of Slaves; Slavery on the Periphery
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Slavery in Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth CenturyThe Expansion of the External Enclaves; The Omani-Swahili Sector; The Southeastern Coast and the Lake Malawi Corridor; The Portuguese Enclaves in West-Central Africa; Apprenticeship in South Africa; Expansion of an Indigenous Slave Mode of Production; The Transformation of Lineage Slavery; 11 The Abolitionist Impulse; The Reluctant Move Toward Abolition; The Colonial Occupation of the Western Coast; Christian Missions in Central and East Africa; The Imperialist Justification of Islamic Slavery
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Slavery in the Political Economy of Africa
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-363) and index
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