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Slavery in Africa : historical and anthropological perspectives / edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff.

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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 s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Miers, Suzanne, Kopytoff, Igor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1977.
Subjects:
Slavery > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Slavery > Africa > History.
Slavery.
Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • African 'Slavery' as an Introduction of Marginality / Igor Kopytoff and Suzanne Miers
  • Mafakur: A Limbic Institution of the Margi (Nigeria) / James H. Vaughan
  • Slavery and Social Stratification among the Sena of Mozambique: A Study of the Kaporo System / Barbara Isaacman and Allen Isaacman
  • Slaves and Slavery in Igboland, Nigeria / Victor C. Uchendu
  • Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Aboh (Nigeia) / K. Nwachukwu-Ogedengbe
  • Slavery and the Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Damagaram (Zinder, Miger) / Roberta Ann Dunbar.
  • Wono: Institutionalized Dependency in Sherbro Descent Groups (Sierra Leone) / Carol P. MacCormack
  • Imbangala Lineage Slavery (Angola) / Joseph C. Miller
  • Economic and Social Dimensions of Kongo Slavery (Zaire) / Wyatt MacGaffey
  • Changing Forms of Servitude among the Kerebe of Tanzania / Gerald W. Hartwig
  • Slavery and Economic Response among the Vai (Liberia and Sierra Leone) / Svend E. Holsoe
  • Slavery among Coastal Middlemen: The Duala of Cameroon / Ralph A. Austen.
  • Servitude among the Wolof and Sereer of Senegambia / Martin A. Klein
  • Servility and Political Control: Botlhanka among the BaTawana of Northwestern Botswana, ca. 1750-1906 / Thomas Tlou
  • Tuareg of the Central Sudan: Gradations in Servility at the Desert Edge (Niger and Nigeria) / Stephen Baier and Paul E. Lovejoy
  • Slavery and Emancipation among the Mende in Sierra Leone, 1896-1928 / John J. Grace
  • Responses to Dependence in a Servile Group: The Machube of Northern Benin / Bernd Baldus.

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