Transformations in Slavery : A History of Slavery in Africa,9780521176187

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Transformations in Slavery : A History of Slavery in Africa

by Paul E. Lovejoy

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3rd

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9780521176187

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0521176182

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

10/10/2011

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Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paul E. Lovejoy is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History.

List of Maps and Tables	p. x
Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xvii
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xxi
Africa and Slavery	p. 1
On the Frontiers of Islam, 1400-1600	p. 24
The Export Trade in Slaves, 1600-1800	p. 45
The Enslavement of Africans, 1600-1800	p. 66
The Organization of Slave Marketing, 1600-1800	p. 88
Relationships of Dependency, 1600-1800	p. 108
The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade	p. 135
Slavery and "Legitimate Trade" on the West African Coast	p. 160
Slavery in the Savanna during the Era of the Jihads	p. 185
Slavery in Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century	p. 219
The Abolitionist Impulse	p. 244
Slavery in the Political Economy of Africa	p. 267
Epilogue	p. 281
Appendix: Chronology of Measures against Slavery	p. 285
Notes	p. 293
Select Bibliography	p. 355
Index	p. 365
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