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This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early
twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery
developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy
discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade
as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He
considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's
role in African history. The book corrects the accepted
interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the
slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in
production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships
to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless,
slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its
position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition
revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and
incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
The collective significance of the themes that are explored in
Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and
thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the
ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that
emerged in the Atlantic basin. The study explores the conceptual
problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic
world from a perspective that focuses on Africa and the historical
context that accounts for this influence. Paul Lovejoy focuses on
the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans,
including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints
on migration, and the importance of women and children in the
movement of people who were enslaved. The prevalence of slavery in
Africa and the transformations of social and political formations
of societies and political structures during the era of
trans-Atlantic migration inform the book's research. The analysis
places Africa, specifically western Africa, at the center of
historical change, not on the frontier or periphery of western
Europe or the Americas, and provides a global perspective that
reconsiders historical reconstruction of the Atlantic world that
challenges the distortions of Eurocentrism and national histories.
Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa will be of interest to
scholars and students of colonial history, African history,
Diaspora Studies, the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery.
Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine,
coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present
day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated
bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming
Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how
different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.
Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of
civilizations, the definition of cultural identities, and the
growth of the world economy. The labelling of these substances as
'legal' or 'illegal' has diverted attention away from understanding
their important cultural and historical role. This collection
explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances
from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.
This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree
labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world
and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning
labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West.
Between 1500 and 1900, the various parts of the Atlantic world
became increasingly integrated into an expanding capitalist
economy. This collection of essays examines the different forms of
unfree labour that contributed to the development of this world
and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning
labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West.
Comparative in perspective, the essays focus on particular regions
(Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and Amerindia) and on specific
types of labour (slavery, pawnship, impressment, tribute,
indentured and contract labour) in ways that transcend traditional
areas of specialization. Together they offer new insight into the
patterns and intensity of labour servitude in the West and into the
relationships between core and peripheral areas of the first
capital world economy.
In this study of salt production and trade, Professor Lovejoy
examines the interaction between ecology, technology and social
structure as a means of analysing the organisation of the salt
industry of the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno. By concentrating on the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lovejoy is able to
establish a base-line from which to interpret earlier changes in
the salt trade and thereby assess the impact of politics and
economy on the history of the trade. By the end of the nineteenth
century, production depended upon a combination of slavery, free
migrant peasants, and workers from the haddad artisan caste. A
complex marketing network serviced the various salines, although
this network was intimately connected with the distribution of
other commodities, especially textiles, grain and livestock. An
examination of this marketing system reveals patterns of
immigration and social advancement that are important in
understanding the social history of the central Sudan.
Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine,
coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present
day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated
bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming
Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how
different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.
Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of
civilizations, the definition of cultural identities, and the
growth of the world economy. The labelling of these substances as
'legal' or 'illegal' has diverted attention away from understanding
their important cultural and historical role. This collection
explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances
from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.
This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early
twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery
developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy
discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade
as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He
considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's
role in African history. The book corrects the accepted
interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the
slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in
production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships
to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless,
slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its
position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition
revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and
incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria
during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the
British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave
societies in modern history. Rather than emancipate slaves, the
colonial state abolished the legal status of slavery, encouraging
them to buy their freedom. Many were unable to do so, and slavery
was not finally abolished until l936. The authors have written a
provocative book, raising doubts over the moral legitimacy of both
the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state.
The collective significance of the themes that are explored in
Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and
thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the
ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that
emerged in the Atlantic basin. The study explores the conceptual
problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic
world from a perspective that focuses on Africa and the historical
context that accounts for this influence. Paul Lovejoy focuses on
the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans,
including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints
on migration, and the importance of women and children in the
movement of people who were enslaved. The prevalence of slavery in
Africa and the transformations of social and political formations
of societies and political structures during the era of
trans-Atlantic migration inform the book's research. The analysis
places Africa, specifically western Africa, at the center of
historical change, not on the frontier or periphery of western
Europe or the Americas, and provides a global perspective that
reconsiders historical reconstruction of the Atlantic world that
challenges the distortions of Eurocentrism and national histories.
Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa will be of interest to
scholars and students of colonial history, African history,
Diaspora Studies, the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery.
In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent
historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the
Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part
of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book
examines the jihad movement in the context of the age of
revolutions-commonly associated with the American and French
revolutions and the erosion of European imperialist powers-and
shows how West Africa, too, experienced a period of profound
political change in the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth
century. Paul Lovejoy argues that West Africa was a vital actor in
the Atlantic world, and has wrongly been excluded from analyses of
the period. Among its chief contributions, the book
reconceptualizes slavery. Lovejoy shows that during the decades in
question, slavery not only expanded extensively in the southern
United States, Cuba, and Brazil, but also in the jihad states of
West Africa. In particular, this expansion occurred in the Muslim
states of the Sokoto Caliphate, Fuuta Jalon, and Fuuta Toro. At the
same time, he offers new information on the role antislavery
activity in West Africa played in the Atlantic slave trade and the
African diaspora. Finally, Jihad and Slavery in West Africa during
the Age of Revolutions provides unprecedented context for the
political and cultural role of Islam in Africa-and of the concept
of jihad in particular-from the eighteenth century into the
present. Understanding that there is a long tradition of jihad in
West Africa, Lovejoy argues, helps to correct the current
distortion in understanding the contemporary jihad movement in the
Middle East, Afganistan, Pakistan, and Africa.
In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent
historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the
Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part
of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book
examines the jihad movement in the context of the age of
revolutions-commonly associated with the American and French
revolutions and the erosion of European imperialist powers-and
shows how West Africa, too, experienced a period of profound
political change in the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth
century. Paul Lovejoy argues that West Africa was a vital actor in
the Atlantic world, and has wrongly been excluded from analyses of
the period. Among its chief contributions, the book
reconceptualizes slavery. Lovejoy shows that during the decades in
question, slavery not only expanded extensively in the southern
United States, Cuba, and Brazil, but also in the jihad states of
West Africa. In particular, this expansion occurred in the Muslim
states of the Sokoto Caliphate, Fuuta Jalon, and Fuuta Toro. At the
same time, he offers new information on the role antislavery
activity in West Africa played in the Atlantic slave trade and the
African diaspora. Finally, Jihad and Slavery in West Africa during
the Age of Revolutions provides unprecedented context for the
political and cultural role of Islam in Africa-and of the concept
of jihad in particular-from the eighteenth century into the
present. Understanding that there is a long tradition of jihad in
West Africa, Lovejoy argues, helps to correct the current
distortion in understanding the contemporary jihad movement in the
Middle East, Afganistan, Pakistan, and Africa.
This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the
trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into
focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered
either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study
combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of
Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds imported
enslaved populations from western and central Sudan, but in general
the two markets have been treated in isolation and without
reference to the common bond of Islam and the multiple roles that
Islam has played in the history of slavery, whether in West Africa
itself, the Americas, or the Islamic Mediterranean. Western Africa
served as the point of dispersion across desert and sea, but it was
also the final destination of many of those who were enslaved but
who were not transported across the Atlantic or the Sahara. The
relationship between Islam and slavery is explored as a series of
frontiers: in the Americas between enslaved Muslims and their
Christian masters and the types of resistance and accommodation
that arose there; in West Africa between Muslim and non-Muslim
societies and the attempts at defining who was a Muslim in terms of
issues of enslavement; in North Africa between Muslim masters and
the enslaved population from West Africa and the popularity of
spirit possession cults. The resistance of Muslims to assimilation
and the accommodation of Muslims to bondage also created other
frontiers that are explored in this book.
This is the biography of an American slave who was born in Africa.
His adventures took him to Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston,
Canada, and Britain; he knew Arabic, Dendi, probably Hausa,
Portuguese, English, and French. In recent times scholars raised
the doubt that such biographies of slaves born in Africa were only
partially true; so, Law and Lovejoy traveled to Djougou and Brazil
and followed the traces of Baquaqua via various collections,
documents, oral history and written reports. They photographed the
sites described by Baquaqua and included them in the book. They
have also added several letters and other documents to the 1854
original edition. Baquaqua was enslaved in northern Benin in the
early 1840s when he was about 20. At the time he was a bodyguard
for the ruler of a subordinate town. He was abducted, taken south
through Togo to Ouidah, a port in Dahomey, shipped to Pernambuco in
Brazil, and sold to a merchant from Rio. This merchant then sold
him to another Rio merchant, who took him by ship to New York City,
where a little-known black group, the New York Vigilance Society,
convinced him to jump ship. He escaped to Boston and traveled to
Haiti, the only free Black state, where he was picked up by the
Free Baptist Mission. Here Baquaqua converted to Christianity. He
later returned to the U.S. and attended college, and traveled
extensively.
This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the
UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and
cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays
concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on
both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new
sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of
the most historical phenomena of the modern era. In exploring the
cultural impact of the slave trade in Africa and the Americas,
these essays contend that complex, intercontinental forces shaped
the African diaspora; the repercussions being felt on both sides of
the Atlantic. Rather than considering the Atlantic a barrier,
crossed in one direction only, the trans-Atlantic dimensions of
slaving revealed here involved a degree of interaction that
requires a careful reconsideration of patterns of resistance and
accommodation, allowing for an examination of the expectations of
the enslaved as well as analysis of the experience of
slavery.Personal experience, memory and tradition kept alive
cultural forms and expressions, whether through music, poetry or
other means. The encounters forced on the ensl
This unique collection of twelve essays by internationally known
scholars deals with the important, but underexplored, topic of the
transatlantic linkages between western Africa and Brazil during the
era of the slave trade (c. 1600-1850). Brazil received more
enslaved Africans (approximately 4.5 million) than any other part
of the Americas--ten times as many as North America, and more than
all of the Caribbean and North America combined. The forced
shipment of millions of Africans to the Americas, where their
enslavement became the basis of intense exploitation, profoundly
influenced the development of the American societies that used
slaves, the African societies from which the victims originated,
and the European nations centrally involved in colonizing the
Americas. Transatlantic slavery and the forces that produced its
formal abolition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were
clearly vital in helping to define the identities of both black and
white people, and in shaping European colonialism and imperialism.
These factors have left legacies of racism and division with
important social consequences. Divided into three major parts, the
collection focuses in the first section on the Portuguese-Brazilian
slave trade. The second section examines the impact of western
Africans on the making of colonial and postindependence Brazil. The
final section explores the effects of Brazil and Afro-Brazilians on
western Africa. This important volume of cutting-edge research and
analysis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of
the history of slavery in the Americas.
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