Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave TradesThis interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves by Occidental and Oriental purchasers in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century. While primarily a general survey, Dr. Manning presents original research and analysis, especially in his demographic model, computer simulation of slave trade and analysis of slave prices. By revealing clearly the succession of transformations which slavery brought throughout the African continent, the book shows in new depth the place of Africa in the history of the Atlantic basin, of western Asia and North Africa, and of the Indian Ocean. |
Contents
Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery | 1 |
The political economy of slavery in Africa | 8 |
Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 | 27 |
Slavery and the African population a demographic model | 38 |
The quantitative impact of the slave trade 17001900 | 60 |
The economics and morality of slave supply | 86 |
Patterns of slave life | 110 |
Transformations of slavery and society 16501900 | 126 |
Other editions - View all
Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades Patrick Manning No preview available - 1990 |
Common terms and phrases
African History African population African slave trade African societies Angola annual slave exports areas argued Asante Atlantic slave trade Average annual slave Bight of Benin Bight of Biafra British brought captives capture changes colonial continued cost Curtin Dahomey Danhomè decline demand for slaves demographic domestic Eastern eighteenth century Eltis enslavement estimates European expanded factors female slaves fertility French Gold Coast impact of slave important increased institutions Islamic Journal of African l'esclavage large numbers Lovejoy male slaves masters Meillassoux modern mortality Mozambique Nigeria nineteenth century number of slaves Occidental trade Oriental trade percent plantations political polygyny prices of slaves profit raids regional population result sacrifice Savanna and Horn Senegambia sex ratio slave exports slave exports thousands slave labor slave merchants slave mode slave population slave prices Slave Society slave supply slavery in Africa social Sokoto Caliphate Sudan Transatlantic Slave Trade West Western Coast Western Sudan World Zanzibar
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Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Limited preview - 1998 |
Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin No preview available - 2007 |