Slaves and Slavery in Africa

Slaves and Slavery in Africa

Author: John Ralph Willis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1986-12-31

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0203988175

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First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Black Morocco

Black Morocco

Author: Chouki El Hamel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1139620045

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Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.


African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources

Author: Alice Bellagamba

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 110732808X

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Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.


Slaves and Slavery in Africa

Slaves and Slavery in Africa

Author: John Ralph Willis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1135780161

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First Published in 1986. Slavery in Islamic Africa has been a fascinating subject to which many scholars have referred, but of which no detailed monograph has emerged. The better part of the essays in these volumes has its ancestry in a conference held at Princeton University during the Summer of 1977 under the title: “Islamic Africa: Slavery and Related Institutions”. At that international gathering, four principal themes dominated discussion: the servile estate, its genesis and composition; the master-slave connection and the post-servile condition; patterns and perspectives of slave trading; the legacy of Islamic slavery in Africa to contemporary societies.


Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Author: Terence Walz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9774163982

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In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet little is known about them. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean.


Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Author: Bernard Lewis

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780195053265

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From the days before Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was one of the last regions to renounce slavery, how do we account for its--and especially Islam's--image of racial harmony? How did these long years of slavery affect racial relations? In Race and Slavery in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis explores these questions and others, examining the history of slavery in law, social thought, practice, and literature and art over the last two millennia.