African systems of slavery
By: edited by Jay Spaulding and Stephanie Beswick.
Contributors: Spaulding, Jay.; Beswick, Stephanie.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Slavery -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stephanie Beswick and Jay Spaulding; title: Slavery in the Western Soudan / Martin A. Klein; title: Slaves without rulers : domestic slavery among the Diola of Senegambia / Robert Baum; title: The work of slaves in the Akan and Adangme regions of Ghana in the nineteenth century / Raymond E. Dumett; title: When deities marry : indigenous "slave" systems expanding and metamorphosing in the Igbo hinterland / Nwando Achebe; title: Death's waiting room : equatorial Guinea's long history of slavery / Randall Fegley; title: Slaves in the politically decentralized societies of Equatorial Africa / Robert Harms; title: Indigenous slavery and the Atlantic trade : Kongo texts / Wyatt MacGaffey; title: Bound to violence : Uganda's child soldiers as slaves / Randall Fegley; title: South Sudanese systems of slavery : state expansion and slave mobility among the Bari and Azande of South Sudan (c. 1700-1900) / Stephanie Beswick; title: "Slaves of the king"-rhetoric and reality in the Nubian state tradition / Jay Spaulding.