Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.

Author
Lovejoy, Paul E. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
3rd ed.
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description
xxiv, 381 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Summary note
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781107002968 ((hardback))
    • 1107002966 ((hardback))
    • 9780521176187 ((paperback))
    • 0521176182 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2011014119
    OCLC
    719673372
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