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Slavery in Africa : archaeology and memory /
- Title
- Slavery in Africa : archaeology and memory / edited by Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xv, 468 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 168
- Uniform Title
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 168.
- Subject
- Note
- Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Slavery, social revolutions and enduring memories / Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Part I Slave systems of production in the African interior: case studies from the Sudanic belt -- Segou: warfare and the origins of a state of slavery / Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara -- The daily life of slaves in the last years of the Bamana States of Kaarta and Segou / Moussa Sow -- The Early Medieval slave trade of the Central Sahel: archaeological and historical considerations / Anne Haour -- Slavery and slaving in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Kingdoms of the Middle Nile / David N. Edwards -- Enslavement and everyday life: living with slave raiding in the North-Eastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon / Scott MacEachern -- Part II Archaeological dimensions of the Atlantic slave trade: evidence from Africa and the diaspora -- Archaeological perspectives on the Atlantic slave trade: contrasts in time and space in Benin and Guinea / Kenneth G. Kelly -- Slaves without shackles: an archaeology of everyday life on Gorée Island, Senegal / Ibrahima Thiaw -- Different conversations about the same thing? Source materials in the recreation of a nineteenth-century slave-raiding landscape, Northen Ghana / Natalie Swanepoel -- Archaeological perspectives on Colonial slavery: placing Africa in African diaspora studies in the Caribbean / E. Kofi Agorsah -- Part III Elusive slavery: detecting enslavement in the archaeological record of Eastern Africa -- The invisible archaeology of slavery in the Horn of Africa? / Niall Finneran -- Monuments of predation: Turco-Egyptian forts in Western Ethiopia / Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Slavery and slave trading in Eastern Africa: exploring the intersections of historical sources and archaeological evidence / Paul J. Lane -- Part IV Remembering slavery: contemporary perceptions -- Recovering and remembering a slave route in Central Tanzania / Stephanie Wynne-Jones -- Memory, oral history and the end of slavery in Tanzania: some methodological considerations / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- The present in the past: how narratives of the slave-raiding era inform current politics in Northern and Central Nigeria / Roger Blench -- Constructing and contesting histories of slavery at the Cape, South Africa / Antonia Malan and Nigel Worden -- A place of history: archaeology and heritage at Cidade Velha, Cape Verde / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Christopher Evans and Konstantin Richter.
- ISBN
- 9780197264782 (acid-free paper)
- 0197264786 (acid-free paper)
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library