Slavery in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery in Africa write by Suzanne Miers. This book was released on 1977. Slavery in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas write by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. This book was released on 2009-11-05. Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.
Slavery in Africa
Slavery in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery in Africa write by Paul Lane. This book was released on 2011-11-17. Slavery in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading archaeologists and historians provide new studies of slavery, slave resistance and the economic, environmental and political consequences of slave trading in Africa, from the first millennium AD through to the nineteenth century.
Slave Owners of West Africa
Slave Owners of West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slave Owners of West Africa write by Sandra E. Greene. This book was released on 2017-05-22. Slave Owners of West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.
Transformations in Slavery
Transformations in Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformations in Slavery write by Paul E. Lovejoy. This book was released on 2011-10-10. Transformations in Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
