Slaves And Slavery In Africa

Author : Suzanne Miers,Igor Kopytoff
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0299073343

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Slavery in Africa by Suzanne Miers,Igor Kopytoff Pdf

This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).

Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521348676

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Slavery and African Life by Patrick Manning Pdf

This book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa.

Author : Joseph E. Inikori,Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822382379

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The Atlantic Slave Trade by Joseph E. Inikori,Stanley L. Engerman Pdf

Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them. Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-term and long-term effects of the slave trade on black mortality, health, and life in the New World; and the racial and cultural consequences of the abolition of slavery. Some of these essays originally appeared in recent issues of Social Science History; the editors have added new material, along with an introduction placing each essay in the context of current debates. Based on extensive archival research and detailed historical examination, this collection constitutes an important contribution to the study of an issue of enduring significance. It is sure to become a standard reference on the Atlantic slave trade for years to come. Contributors. Ralph A. Austen, Ronald Bailey, William Darity, Jr., Seymour Drescher, Stanley L. Engerman, David Barry Gaspar, Clarence Grim, Brian Higgins, Jan S. Hogendorn, Joseph E. Inikori, Kenneth Kiple, Martin A. Klein, Paul E. Lovejoy, Patrick Manning, Joseph C. Miller, Johannes Postma, Woodruff Smith, Thomas Wilson

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521784301

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Transformations in Slavery by Paul E. Lovejoy Pdf

This history of African slavery 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 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. The new edition incorporates recent research, revised statistics on the slave trade demography, and an updated bibliography.

Author : Suzanne Miers
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0299115542

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The End of Slavery in Africa by Suzanne Miers Pdf

This is the first comprehensive assessment of the end of slavery in Africa. Editors Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts, with the distinguished contributors to the volume, establish an agenda for the social history of the early colonial period--hen the end of slavery was one of the most significant historical and cultural processes. The End of Slavery in Africa is a sequel to Slavery in Africa, edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1977. The contributors explore the historical experiences of slaves, masters, and colonials as they all confronted the end of slavery in fifteen sub-Saharan African societies. The essays demonstrate that it is impossible to generalize about whether the end of slavery was a relatively mild and nondisruptive process or whether it marked a significant change in the social and economic organization of a given society. There was no common pattern and no uniform consequence of the end of slavery. The results of this wide-ranging inquiry will be of lasting value to Africanists and a variety of social and economic historians.

Author : Sean Stilwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107001343

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Slavery and Slaving in African History by Sean Stilwell Pdf

This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the African continent. Sean Stilwell pays special attention to the development of settled agriculture, the invention of kinship, "big men" and centralized states, the role of African economic production and exchange, the interaction of local structures of dependence with the external slave trades (transatlantic, trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean), and the impact of colonialism on slavery in the twentieth century. He also provides an introduction to the central debates that have shaped current understanding of slavery in Africa. The book examines different forms of slavery that developed over time in Africa and introduces readers to the lives, work, and struggles of slaves themselves.

Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780203988176

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Slaves and Slavery in Africa by John Ralph Willis Pdf

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135780166

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Slaves and Slavery in Africa by John Ralph Willis Pdf

First Published in 1986. Slavery in Islamic Africa has been a fascinating subject to which many scholars have referred, but of which no detailed monograph has emerged. The better part of the essays in these volumes has its ancestry in a conference held at Princeton University during the Summer of 1977 under the title: “Islamic Africa: Slavery and Related Institutions”. At that international gathering, four principal themes dominated discussion: the servile estate, its genesis and composition; the master-slave connection and the post-servile condition; patterns and perspectives of slave trading; the legacy of Islamic slavery in Africa to contemporary societies.

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317874164

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Atlas of Slavery by James Walvin Pdf

Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its historical importance and making this complex story and its geographical setting easy to understand.

Author : Jonathan Derrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000647525

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Africa's Slaves Today by Jonathan Derrick Pdf

Africa’s Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is by no means dead in certain regions, but that at the same time clear-cut definitions of ‘slave’ and ‘free’ are often impossible to establish. In the Sahara particularly centuries of tradition involving slavery or semi-slavery have ensured a persistence of the status quo in all but name. Recent instances of Africans sold into slavery in Arabia are discussed, together with a detailed survey of slavery throughout North Africa and Ethiopia. At what stage forced labour becomes slavery is a difficult question raised by the discussion of the white South. The whole subject of slavery is put into perspective by contrasting examinations of the historical situation throughout the book.

Author : Etienne Félix Berlioux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Slave-trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120889733

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The Slave Trade in Africa in 1872 by Etienne Félix Berlioux Pdf

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780232041

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Crossings by James Walvin Pdf

We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing on the subject has focused on the European traders and the arrival of slaves in North America. In Crossings, eminent historian James Walvin covers these established territories while also traveling back to the story’s origins in Africa and south to Brazil, an often forgotten part of the triangular trade, in an effort to explore the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic. Reconstructing the transatlantic slave trade from an extensive archive of new research, Walvin seeks to understand and describe how the trade began in Africa, the terrible ordeals experienced there by people sold into slavery, and the scars that remain on the continent today. Journeying across the ocean, he shows how Brazilian slavery was central to the development of the slave trade itself, as that country tested techniques and methods for trading and slavery that were successfully exported to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas in the following centuries. Walvin also reveals the answers to vital questions that have never before been addressed, such as how a system that the Western world came to despise endured so long and how the British—who were fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade—became the most prominent proponents of its eradication. The most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, Crossings offers a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history.

Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 0714632015

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Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa: The servile estate by John Ralph Willis Pdf

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Henri Médard,Shane Doyle
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445747

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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa by Henri Médard,Shane Doyle Pdf

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa is a collection of ten studies by the most prominent historians of the region. Slavery was more important in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa than often has been assumed, and Africans from the interior played a more complex role than was previously recognized. The essays in this collection reveal the connections between the peoples of the region as well as their encounters with the conquering Europeans. The contributors challenge the assertion that domestic slavery increased in Africa as a result of the international trade. Slavery in this region was not a uniform phenomenon and the line between enslaved and non-slave labor was fine. Kinship ties could mark the difference between free and unfree labor. Social categories were not always clear-cut and the status of a slave could change within a lifetime. Contents: - Introduction by Henri Médard - Language Evidence of Slavery to the Eighteenth Century by David Schoenbrun - The Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi 1860–1900 by Jan-Georg Deutsch - Slavery & Forced Labour in the Eastern Congo 1850–1910 by David Northrup - Legacies of Slavery in North West Uganda ‘The One-Elevens’ by Mark Leopold - Human Booty in Buganda: The Seizure of People in War, c.1700–c.1900 by Richard Reid - Stolen People & Autonomous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Buganda by Holly Hanson - Women’s Experiences of Slavery in Late Nineteenth- & Early Twentieth-Century Uganda by Michael W. Tuck - Slavery & Social Oppression in Ankole 1890–1940 by Edward I. Steinhart - The Slave Trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the Beginning of German Colonisation 1890–1906 by Jean-Pierre Chretien - Bunyoro & the Demography of Slavery Debate by Shane Doyle

Author : Sandra E. Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253026026

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Slave Owners of West Africa by Sandra E. Greene Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.