Transformations in slavery
Subtitle: a history of slavery in Africa
By: Paul E. Lovejoy
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: African studies -- 117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781107002968; 9780521176187
Subjects: HISTORY / Africa / General; Slave trade; Slavery; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.