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Slavery and African Life Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades

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ISBN-10: 0521348676

ISBN-13: 9780521348676

Edition: 1990

Authors: Patrick Manning, David Anderson, Carolyn Brown, Christopher Clapham, Michael Gomez

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This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves by Occidental and Oriental purchasers in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century. While primarily a general survey, Dr. Manning presents original research and analysis, especially in his demographic model, computer simulation of slave trade and…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/28/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
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 plates
List of figures
List of maps
Acknowledgements
Prologue: tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery
The political economy of slavery in Africa
Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700
Slavery and the African population: a demographic model
The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900
The economics and morality of slave supply
Patterns of slave life
Transformations of slavery and society, 1650-1900
The end of slavery
The world and Africa
slave prices
the demographic simulation
Notes
bibliography
Index