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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patrick Manning
• Con la collaborazione di: David Anderson (Editore), Carolyn Brown (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.09.1990
• EAN: 9780521348676
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34867-6
• Pagine: 252
• Serie: African Studies Series
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni