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Slavery and Slave Trade in Nigeria. From Earliest Times to The Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Slavery and Slave Trade in Nigeria. From Earliest Times to The Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Eight Nigerian academics, including the distinguished historian of
Africa, J.F. Ade Ajayi, here present a history of the slave trade.
Their perspective is that the focus has hitherto been primarily on
the external trade, particularly the trans-Atlantic trade to
Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and less so on the equally
important and much older trans-Saharan and trans-Indian Ocean
trades, the launch pad for the external trade. The profusion of
documents and records on the European and American aspects, and the
absence of African voices in these records, has given rise to this.
However, new methods and approaches resulting from the revolution
in historiography where non-written sources, especially the use of
oral history and oral traditions, are increasingly enabling the
capture not only of the African voices, but also the indigenous
memories concerning the institutions. The expanding interest in
African diaspora studies and the intervention of UNESCO through
their Slave Route Project since 1993, have given increased
attention to the indigenous slave trade and slavery in Africa.
Structured to address important themes in slavery and slave trade
studies in the Nigeria region, there are fourteen major themes,
presented in nine chapters. An important strength of the book is
that each contributor is from the area of focus and thus a speaker
of one or more of the indigenous languages, and able to collect the
oral traditions, histories and memories of the groups.
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