Consuming Habits : Global And Historical Perspectives On How Cultures Define Drugs

Paul E. Lovejoy

Andrew Sherratt

Jordan Goodman

Taylor & Francis Group

The movement of workers involved in long-distance trade in Africa constitutes one of the most ancient and most massive forms of labour migration in African history. Focusing primarily on the latter half of the nineteenth century, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of long-distance trade: including the role of the family, wage employment, slavery, and the entrepreneur; the institutions that mobilized and organized the work force; and the workers' remuneration and the accumulation of surplus.

The Workers of African Trade (Sage Series on African Modernization and Development)

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

Business & Money

Sage Publications, Inc.

Transformations in Slavery

Cambridge University Press

<p>The African Diaspora was a consequence of the enslavement in the interior of West Africa. Facilitated by the political structures existing in the region, political and religious issues in the central Sudan (land of the blacks) led to the subjugation of whole communities. Many were transported across the Sahara Desert to the Maghreb and the Ottoman Empire and also across the Atlantic to the Americas, especially Brazil. Enslaved Muslims and non-Muslims who were brought into the world of Islam reinforced or invented cultural features that were central to their identities as people from the central Sudan. Spirit possession cults (bori) spread wherever the enslaved were found. This book examines the conditions of slavery facing Muslims and converts to Islam both in the central Sudan and in the broader diaspora of Africans. It considers the consequences of European colonialism in undermining the institution of slavery.</p>

Slavery and the Muslim Diaspora: African Slaves in Dar Es-Salam

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Markus Wiener Publishers

Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam

This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds imported enslaved populations from western and central Sudan, but in general the two markets have been treated in isolation and without reference to the common bond of Islam and the multiple roles that Islam has played in the history of slavery, whether in West Africa itself, the Americas, or the Islamic Mediterranean. Western Africa served as the point of dispersion across desert and sea, but it was also the final destination of many of those who were enslaved but who were not transported across the Atlantic or the Sahara. The relationship between Islam and slavery is explored as a series of frontiers: in the Americas between enslaved Muslims and their Christian masters and the types of resistance and accommodation that arose there; in West Africa between Muslim and non-Muslim societies and the attempts at defining who was a Muslim in terms of issues of enslavement; in North Africa between Muslim masters and the enslaved population from West Africa and the popularity of spirit possession cults. The resistance of Muslims to assimilation and the accommodation of Muslims to bondage also created other frontiers that are explored in this book.

This collection brings together the key essays on the history of slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate in West Africa of Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. Lovejoy’s work explores the role of slavery in the consolidation of the largest state in Africa in the 19th century, particularly in relation to the interior of modern Nigeria, Niger, and Benin before c. 1900, when Muslim merchants and entrepreneurs dominated economy and society. The essays are essential reading for those interested in the functioning of the internal social and economic structures of African countries during the era of trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trades. Lovejoy pays particular attention to the importance of slavery in trade and production in the context of Islamic society.

Slavery, Commerce and Production in West Africa

History

Africa

Africa World+press

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