Transformations in slavery: a history of slavery in Africa

This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketin...

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Main Author: Lovejoy, Paul E. 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
Edition:Third edition
Series:African studies 117
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Summary:This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process 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 new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 381 pages)
ISBN:9781139014946
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139014946

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