num_pages: 367
description: 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. This new edition incorporates recent research, revised statistics on the slave trade demography, and an updated bibliography.
language: English
title: Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
titlecomplete: Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (African Studies, Series Number 100)
genres: Africa, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Cambridge University Press