Transformations in Slavery A History of Slavery in Africa

Name: Transformations in Slavery A History of Slavery in Africa
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ISBN: 9780521784306

ISBN-10: 0521784301

ISBN-13: 9780521784306

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Paul E. Lovejoy, David Anderson, Carolyn Brown, Christopher Clapham, Michael Gomez

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This history of slavery in Africa from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Professor Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the process of enslavement and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas.…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

David Anderson is Director of the African Studies Centre and Professor of African Politics, St Cross College, Oxford University.Nic Cheeseman is Lecturer in African Politics, Jesus College, Oxford University.



List of Maps and Tables


Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures


Preface


Preface to the Second Edition



Africa and Slavery


Slavery: A Definition


Slavery in Social Formations


The African Setting


The Islamic Factor


The Trans-Atlantic Trade



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



The Export Trade in Slaves, 1600-1800


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



The Enslavement of Africans, 1600-1800


A Politically Fragmented Continent


The Muslim Tradition of War and State


War-Lords of West-Central Africa


Politics of Slave Trading on the West African Coast


The Dynamics of Slave Supply



The Organization of Slave Marketing, 1600-1800


Muslim 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



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



The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade


The Dynamics of Slavery in the Nineteenth Century


The Trans-Atlantic Trade: The Last Surge


The Volume of the Non-Slave Trade


The Trans-Saharan and Red Sea Trade


The East African Trade


The Internal Trade



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



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



Slavery in Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century


The Expansion of the External Enclaves


The Omani-Swahili Sector


The South-Eastern 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 Limited Transformation of Lineage Slavery



The Abolitionist Impulse


The Reluctant Move Towards Abolition


The Colonial Occupation of the Western Coast


Christian Missions in Central and East Africa


The Imperialist Justification of Islamic Slavery



Slavery in the Political Economy of Africa


Slavery as a Mode of Production


The Transformation of Slavery


Articulation with Capitalism


The Legacy of Slavery



Chronology of Measures Against Slavery


Notes


Bibliography


Index