Unacknowledged policies and mindsets from the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1444-1888) continue to perpetuate injustices and instability, destroying people and the planet. It keeps the world in conquest, terror alert mode shaping human interactions and expectations. Part I opens ou…
Introduction: Conceptualizing slavery in global Africa -- Issues of enslavement -- Ethnicity, culture and religion in global Africa -- Experiences of the enslaved in Africa -- Regulation and patterns in collaboration in the slave trade -- Enforced migration -- Pawnship, slavery …
The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlant…
The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also large and fast ships to carry it. The Whydah was just such a ship, built to ply the Triangular Trade route, which it did until one of…
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.
African voices on slavery and the slave trade
This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. It will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade…
African voices on slavery and the slave trade
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave…
To cast light on African perspectives of the history of slavery, top Africanist scholars have examined both conventional historical sources and less-explored sources of information. This is the first of two volumes providing a trove of African sources for studying African slaver…
"What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slav…
African voices on slavery and the slave trade
Traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil.
