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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      October 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139014946
      9781107002968
      9780521176187
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139014946
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 412 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 412 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, Politics and International Relations, African Government, Politics and Policy, African History
      Series:
      African Studies (117)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Politics and International Relations, African Government, Politics and Policy, African History
    Series:
    African Studies (117)
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    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.

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    'As with all good history, Transformations in Slavery makes us see the present in the new light it casts on the past. This clear narrative is charged with philosophical sophistication and enlivened by well-placed anecdote.'

    Tony Voss Source: African Studies Quarterly

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