ACLS Humanities E-Book: Women and slavery in Africa

Women and slavery in Africa

Klein, Martin A., Robertson, Claire C., 1944-

Year: c1997.

Publisher: Heinemann.

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Frontmatter

Maps and Figures

Foreword to the Heinemann Edition

Introduction

1. Women's Importance in African Slave Systems

Part I. Demographic and Theoretical Perspectives

2. African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade

3. Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure

4. Female Slavery

5. Women in Slavery in the Western Sudan

Appendix: The Economics of the Slave Menage

Part II. Production and Reproduction

6. Sustaining the System: Trading Towns along the Middle Zaire

7. Slavery and Reproductive Labor in Mombasa

8. The Songhay-Zarma Female Slave: Relations of Production and Ideological Status

9. Women in Slavery among the Mangbetu c. 1800-1910

10. Slave Wives, Free Sisters: Bakongo Women and Slavery c. 1700-1850

Part III. The Slave Experience: Case Histories

11. The Story of Swema: Female Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

Appendix: Histoire d'une petite esclave enterrée vivante, ou L'Amour filial

12. Post-Proclamation Slavery in Accra: A Female Affair?

Appendix: A Note on Anlo (Ewe) Slavery and the History of a Slave, By G. K. Nukunya

13. Bwanikwa: Consciousness and Protest among Slave Women in Central Africa, 1886-1911

Part IV. Women as Slave Owners, Users, and Traders

14. Slaves, Slave Owners, and Slave Dealers: Sherbro Coast and Hinterland

15. A Nhara of the Guinea-Bissau Region: Mãe Aurélia Correia

16. Women Slavers of Guinea-Conakry

17. Servitude and Worldly Success in the Palace of Dahomey

Index

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Title:

Women and slavery in Africa : edited by Claire C. Robertson, Martin A. Klein.

Author:

Klein, Martin A; Robertson, Claire C., 1944-

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Women and slavery in Africa : edited by Claire C. Robertson, Martin A. Klein.
Klein, Martin A, Robertson, Claire C., 1944-
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, c1997.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02068

Subject Headings:

• Slavery -- Africa -- History
• Slave trade -- Africa -- History
• Women slaves -- Africa -- History

Notes:

• Originally published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

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