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Title Reconfiguring slavery : West African trajectories / edited by Benedetta Rossi.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium monochrome
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Series Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 2
Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Contents 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.
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Subject Slavery -- Africa, West -- History.
Slavery.
West Africa.
History.
Children of freed persons -- Africa, West -- History.
Children of freed persons.
Africa, West -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Africa, West -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History.
Slave trade.
Enslaved persons -- Africa, West -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons.
Freed persons -- Africa, West -- Social conditions.
Freed persons.
West Africa.
Benin.
Cameroon.
Gambia.
Ghana.
Mauritania.
Niger.
Senegal.
slavery.
enslaved persons.
freedmen.
social status.
conference papers (form)
2007.
Slavery & abolition of slavery.
Social Science -- Slavery.
Freed persons -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions.
Slavery -- Africa, West -- History.
Children of freedmen -- Africa, West -- History.
Africa, West -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Rossi, Benedetta, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Reconfiguring slavery. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2009 1846311993 (OCoLC)287992970
ISBN 1846315646 (electronic book)
9781846315640 (electronic book)
9781781388662
1781388660
1846311993
9781846311994
9781781383056
1781383057