Slavery in Africa
Suzanne Miers
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Slavery in Africa
by Suzanne Miers, Igor Kopytoff
Published
February 1980
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pages
494
ISBN-13
9780299073343
ISBN-10
0299073343
Description
This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).
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American notes
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Slavery in Africa was written by Suzanne Miers, Igor Kopytoff.
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