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Informationen zum Autor Olatunji Ojo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brock University! St. Catherine's! Canada. Nadine Hunt teaches African History at York University! Toronto! Canada. For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. This title demonstrates how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. Zusammenfassung For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. This title demonstrates how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tables – viiMaps – viiiIllustrations – ixAcknowledgements – xNotes on Contributors – xiIntroduction ( Nadine Hunt and Olatunji Ojio ) – 11. Ethnicity and Identity at the Niger-Benue Confluence during the Nineteenth Century Nupe Jihad ( Femi James Kolapo ) – 92. Slave Trading in Kano Emirate ( Mohammed Bashir Salau ) – 383. Concubinage and Slavery in Benguela, c. 1750-1850 ( Mariana P. Candido ) – 654. Correspondence of the Lagos Slave Trade, 1848-1850 ( Olatunji Ojo ) – 855. The Metamorphosis of Slavery in Colonial Mombassa, 1907-1963 ( Feisal Farah ) – 1216. Economy, Politics, and the Early Formation of a Cultural Identity in British Virgin Islands’ Slave Society ( Katherine A. Smith ) – 1447. Remembering Africans in Diaspora: Robert Wedderburn’s ‘Freedome Narrative’ ( Nadine Hunt ) – 175Bibliography – 199Index – 221
