Transformations in slavery [electronic resource] : a history of slavery in Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.

By: Lovejoy, Paul EContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: African studies series ; 117.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxiv, 381 p. : mapsISBN: 9781139115339 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Slavery -- Africa -- History | Slave trade -- Africa -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.3/62096 LOC classification: HT1321 | .L68 2012Online resources: Click to View
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Machine generated contents note: 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.
Summary: "This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. The new edition revises statistical material and incorporates recent research"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 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.

"This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. The new edition revises statistical material and incorporates recent research"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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