CiNii Books - Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa

This history of slavery in Africa from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Professor Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the process of enslavement and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This second edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates more recent research with an updated bibliography.

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List of maps and tables
Note on currencies, weights and measures
Preface
Preface to the second edition
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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