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1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 2 |
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Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 2.
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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 |
| Summary |
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 forebears' social positions, or to distance themselves from them. The book contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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Print version record |
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Slavery -- Africa, West -- History
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Children of freed persons -- Africa, West -- History
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Africa, West -- History
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Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History
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Enslaved persons -- Africa, West -- Social conditions
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Freed persons -- Africa, West -- Social conditions
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West Africa.
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Benin.
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Cameroon.
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Gambia.
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Ghana.
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Mauritania.
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Niger.
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Senegal.
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slavery.
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enslaved persons.
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freedmen.
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social status.
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conference papers (form)
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2007.
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Slavery & abolition of slavery.
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Social Science -- Slavery.
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Children of freed persons
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Freed persons -- Social conditions
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Slave trade
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
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Social conditions
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Sklaverei
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Slavernij.
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Gevolgen.
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Slavery -- Africa, West -- History.
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Children of freedmen -- Africa, West -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, West -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001712
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West Africa
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Westafrika
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West-Afrika.
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Africa, West -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rossi, Benedetta, editor.
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| ISBN |
1846315646 |
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9781846315640 |
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9781781388662 |
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1781388660 |
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