Reconfiguring Slavery : West African Trajectories Paperback / softback
Edited by Benedetta (Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham (United K Rossi
Part of the Liverpool Studies in International Slavery series
Paperback / softback
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Reconfiguring Slavery 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.
Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia.
As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:26/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781781383056
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:26/02/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781781383056
