Slavery in Africa
Subtitle: archaeology and memory
By: edited by Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald
Contributors: British Academy
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy -- 168; Proceedings of the British Academy -- 168.
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780197264782
Subjects: History; Slave trade; Slave insurrections; Sklavenhandel; Slavery; Sklaverei
Notes: Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Slavery, social revolutions and enduring memories  -- Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Part I; title: Slave systems of production in the African interior: case studies from the Sudanic belt --; title: Segou: warfare and the origins of a state of slavery  -- Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara; title: The daily life of slaves in the last years of the Bamana States of Kaarta and Segou  -- Moussa Sow; title: The Early Medieval slave trade of the Central Sahel: archaeological and historical considerations  -- Anne Haour; title: Slavery and slaving in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Kingdoms of the Middle Nile  -- David N. Edwards; title: Enslavement and everyday life: living with slave raiding in the North-Eastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon  -- Scott MacEachern -- Part II; title: Archaeological dimensions of the Atlantic slave trade: evidence from Africa and the diaspora --; title: Archaeological perspectives on the Atlantic slave trade: contrasts in time and space in Benin and Guinea  -- Kenneth G. Kelly; title: Slaves without shackles: an archaeology of everyday life on Gorée Island, Senegal  -- Ibrahima Thiaw; title: Different conversations about the same thing?  Source materials in the recreation of a nineteenth-century slave-raiding landscape, Northen Ghana  -- Natalie Swanepoel; title: Archaeological perspectives on Colonial slavery: placing Africa in  African diaspora studies in the Caribbean  -- E. Kofi Agorsah -- Part III; title: Elusive slavery: detecting enslavement in the archaeological record of Eastern Africa --; title: The invisible archaeology of slavery in the Horn of Africa?  -- Niall Finneran; title: Monuments of predation: Turco-Egyptian forts in Western Ethiopia  -- Alfredo González-Ruibal; title: Slavery and slave trading in Eastern Africa: exploring the intersections of historical sources and archaeological evidence  -- Paul J. Lane -- Part IV; title: Remembering slavery: contemporary perceptions --; title: Recovering and remembering a slave route in Central Tanzania  -- Stephanie Wynne-Jones; title: Memory, oral history and the end of slavery in Tanzania: some methodological considerations  -- Jan-Georg Deutsch; title: The present in the past: how narratives of the slave-raiding era inform current politics in Northern and Central Nigeria  -- Roger Blench; title: Constructing and contesting histories of slavery at the Cape, South Africa  -- Antonia Malan and Nigel Worden; title: A place of history: archaeology and heritage at Cidade Velha, Cape Verde -- Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Christopher Evans and Konstantin Richter.