Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780521176187 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 381 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge, Eng. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-363) and index.

Formatted 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 -- Appendix: Chronology of measures against slavery.