Research Catalog

Title

Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.

Author

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 381 pages : maps; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

African studies ; 117

Uniform Title

African studies series ; 117.

Subject

• Slavery > Africa > History
• Slave trade > Africa > History
• Slave trade
• Slavery
• Africa

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc E 21-503

ISBN

• 9781107002968
• 1107002966

LCCN

2011014119

OCLC

765825319

Author

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Title

Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Edition

3rd edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African studies ; 117

African studies series ; 117.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: YORK UNIV.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-503