Title
Transformations in slavery [electronic resource] : a history of slavery in Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.
Edition
3rd ed.
ISBN
9781107002968
9780521176187
9781139115339 (electronic book)
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xxiv, 381 p. : maps.
Call Number
HT1321 .L68 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/62096
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Series
African studies series ; 117.
Machine generated contents note: 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.
