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List of Maps and Tables | |
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Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures | |
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Preface | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Africa and Slavery | |
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Slavery: A Definition | |
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Slavery in Social Formations | |
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The African Setting | |
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The Islamic Factor | |
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The Trans-Atlantic Trade | |
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On the Frontiers of Islam, 1400-1600 | |
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The Medieval Slave Trade: The African Frontier | |
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The Institution of Slavery in Muslim Africa | |
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Origins of the Atlantic Trade: The Muslim Connection | |
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Slavery Along the Guinea Coast | |
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The Export Trade in Slaves, 1600-1800 | |
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Volume of the Export Trade, 1600-1800 | |
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The Dominance of West-Central Africa | |
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The Bight of Benin, 1640-1800 | |
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The Gold Coast | |
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The Bight of Biafra | |
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The Upper Guinea Coast and Senegambia | |
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The Volume of the Trade Across the Sahara, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean | |
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Demographic Implications of the Export Trade | |
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The Enslavement of Africans, 1600-1800 | |
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A Politically Fragmented Continent | |
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The Muslim Tradition of War and State | |
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War-Lords of West-Central Africa | |
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Politics of Slave Trading on the West African Coast | |
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The Dynamics of Slave Supply | |
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The Organization of Slave Marketing, 1600-1800 | |
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Muslim Networks | |
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Administered Trade in West-Central Africa | |
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Coastal West Africa: State Trade, River-Boats, and Oracles | |
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Patterns in Restrictive Practices | |
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Slaves and Other Commodities | |
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The Import Trade | |
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Relationships of Dependency, 1600-1800 | |
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The Expansion of Slavery | |
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The Northern Savanna | |
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The West African Coast and Its Interior | |
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Slavery in West-Central Africa | |
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European Slavery in Africa | |
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The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade | |
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The Dynamics of Slavery in the Nineteenth Century | |
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The Trans-Atlantic Trade: The Last Surge | |
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The Volume of the Non-Slave Trade | |
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The Trans-Saharan and Red Sea Trade | |
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The East African Trade | |
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The Internal Trade | |
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Slavery and 'Legitimate Trade' on the West African Coast | |
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Slavery and 'Legitimate Trade' | |
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The Western Coast and Asante | |
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Dahomey and the Yoruba States | |
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The Bight of Biafra | |
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Slavery in the Savanna During the Era of the Jihads | |
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The Size of the Slave Population in the Savanna | |
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The Western Sudan | |
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The Central Sudan | |
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The Region East of Lake Chad | |
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The Organization of the Plantation Sector | |
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Slavery in the Sahel | |
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Assimilation of Slaves | |
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Slavery on the Periphery | |
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Slavery in Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century | |
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The Expansion of the External Enclaves | |
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The Omani-Swahili Sector | |
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The South-Eastern Coast and the Lake Malawi Corridor | |
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The Portuguese Enclaves in West-Central Africa | |
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Apprenticeship in South Africa | |
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Expansion of an Indigenous Slave Mode of Production | |
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The Limited Transformation of Lineage Slavery | |
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The Abolitionist Impulse | |
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The Reluctant Move Towards Abolition | |
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The Colonial Occupation of the Western Coast | |
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Christian Missions in Central and East Africa | |
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The Imperialist Justification of Islamic Slavery | |
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Slavery in the Political Economy of Africa | |
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Slavery as a Mode of Production | |
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The Transformation of Slavery | |
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Articulation with Capitalism | |
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The Legacy of Slavery | |
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Chronology of Measures Against Slavery | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |