Forced migration
Subtitle: the impact of the export slave trade on African societies
By: edited by J.E. Inikori.
Contributors: Inikori, J. E.
Series: Hutchinson university library; Hutchinson university library for Africa
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Slave-trade -- Africa -- History.; Africa -- Social conditions.; Africa -- Economic conditions.
Description: This collection of ten articles on the export slave trade from Africa serves as a vehicle for the editor's long and provocative introductory essay. The articles, originally published between I964 and I977, were selected to illustrate the editor's two major emphases: the relationship of the slave trade to Africa's nineteenth- century economic backwardness, and the importance of treating the whole of Black Africa as a region. The articles chosen are all sound contributions, and translation into English of the articles by Meillassoux and by Becker and Martin is particularly welcome. The key articles of Walter Rodney and John Fage are included in the volume, although the contents were chosen primarily to ensure balanced regional coverage rather than to reproduce the main contributions to current thinking. The central element of this volume, in contrast to most edited collections, is the introduction. Dr Inikori, always controversial in his analysis of slavery, has here set forth his most comprehensive statement on the draining demographic and economic effects of slavery in Africa: he spells out estimated magnitudes for these effects, and he draws attention to crucial assumptions on pre-slave-trade population size, and on sex ratios, mortality and fertility rates during the slave trade; he completes the argument by identifying the negative political and economic consequences of slave trade for African development. -- From https://www.jstor.org (Sep. 27, 2017).
Notes: Bibliography: p. [341]-343.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the context of the Atlantic slave trade / Walter Rodney; title: The role of slavery in the economic and social history of Sahelo-Sudanic Africa / Claude Meillassoux; title: Kayor and Baol / Charles Becker and Victor Martin; title: The import of firearms into West Africa, 1750 to 1807 / J.E. Inikori; title: Slavery and the slave trade in the context of West African history / J.D. Fage; title: The Oyo Yoruba and the Atlantic trade, 1670 to 1830 / Peter Morton-Williams; title: Effects of the Atlantic slave trade on some West African societies / Albert van Dantzig; title: The trade of Loango in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Phyllis Martin; title: The Portuguese slave trade from Angola in the eighteenth century / Herbert S. Klein; title: The impact of the slave trade on east central Africa in the nineteenth century / Edward A. Alpers.