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Reconfiguring slavery : West African trajectories /
This book focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their fore...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Liverpool studies in international slavery ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: rethinking slavery in West Africa
- Slave descent and social status in Sahara and Sudan
- African American psychologists, the Atlantic slave trade and Ghana: a history of the present
- After abolition: metaphors of slavery in the political history of the Gambia
- Islamic patronage and "Republican Emancipation: the slaves of the Almaami in the Senegal River Valley
- Curse and blessing on post-slavery modes of perception and agency in Benin
- Contemporary trajectories of slavery in Haalpulaar society (Mauritania)
- Slavery and politics: stigma, decentralisation and political representation in Niger and Benin
- Slavery and migration: social and physical mobility in Ader (Niger)
- Discourses on slavery: reflections on forty years of research.