Transformations in Slavery
A History of Slavery in Africa
3rd Edition
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Part of African Studies
- Author: Paul E. Lovejoy, York University, Toronto
- Date Published: January 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107002968
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This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process 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. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
Read more- Surveys African history, focusing on slavery
- Provides background for the study of slavery in the Americas
- Shows the development of the African diaspora
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'As with all good history, Transformations in Slavery makes us see the present in the new light it casts on the past. This clear narrative is charged with philosophical sophistication and enlivened by well-placed anecdote.' Tony Voss, African Studies Quarterly
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- Edition: 3rd Edition
- Date Published: January 2012
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107002968
- length: 412 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.68kg
- contains: 6 maps 27 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Africa and slavery
2. On the frontiers of Islam, 1400–1600
3. The export trade in slaves, 1600–1800
4. The enslavement of Africans, 1600–1800
5. The organization of slave marketing, 1600–1800
6. Relationships of dependency, 1600–1800
7. The nineteenth-century slave trade
8. Slavery and 'legitimate trade' on the west African coast
9. Slavery in the savanna during the era of the Jihads
10. Slavery in central, southern, and eastern Africa in the nineteenth century
11. The abolitionist impulse
12. Slavery in the political economy of Africa.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- African Civilizations
- African Slavery
- History of Africa to 1808
- History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Slavery and Freedom, 1492 - 1886
- Survey of African History since 1800
- Traditional Africa
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