Slavery and African Life - Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades

Klappentext This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slave- from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. Zusammenfassung This book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography! economics! social structure! and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of figures; List of maps; Acknowledgements; Prologue: tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery; 1. The political economy of slavery in Africa; 2. Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700; 3. Slavery and the African population: a demographic model; 4. The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900; 5. The economics and morality of slave supply; 6. Patterns of slave life; 7. Transformations of slavery and society, 1650-1900; 8. The end of slavery; 9. The world and Africa; Appendix 1: slave prices; Appendix 2: the demographic simulation; Notes; bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Manning
• Assisted by: David Anderson (Editor), Carolyn Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.1990
• EAN: 9780521348676
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34867-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: African Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries