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Women and slavery in Africa
Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein
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Frontmatter
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Maps and Figures (page vii)
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Foreword to the Heinemann Edition (page viii)
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Introduction
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1. Women's Importance in African Slave Systems (Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein, page 3)
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Part I. Demographic and Theoretical Perspectives
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2. African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Herbert S. Klein, page 29)
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3. Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure (John Thornton, page 39)
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4. Female Slavery (Claude Meillassoux, page 49)
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5. Women in Slavery in the Western Sudan (Martin A. Klein, page 67)
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Appendix: The Economics of the Slave Menage (page 89)
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Part II. Production and Reproduction
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6. Sustaining the System: Trading Towns along the Middle Zaire (Robert Harms, page 95)
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7. Slavery and Reproductive Labor in Mombasa (Margaret Strobel, page 111)
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8. The Songhay-Zarma Female Slave: Relations of Production and Ideological Status (Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, page 130)
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9. Women in Slavery among the Mangbetu c. 1800-1910 (Curtis A. Klein, page 144)
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10. Slave Wives, Free Sisters: Bakongo Women and Slavery c. 1700-1850 (Susan Herlin Broadhead, page 160)
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Part III. The Slave Experience: Case Histories
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11. The Story of Swema: Female Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century East Africa (Edward A. Alpers, page 185)
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Appendix: Histoire d'une petite esclave enterrée vivante, ou L'Amour filial (page 200)
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12. Post-Proclamation Slavery in Accra: A Female Affair? (Claire C. Robertson, page 220)
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Appendix: A Note on Anlo (Ewe) Slavery and the History of a Slave, By G. K. Nukunya (page 243)
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13. Bwanikwa: Consciousness and Protest among Slave Women in Central Africa, 1886-1911 (Marcia Wright, page 246)
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Part IV. Women as Slave Owners, Users, and Traders
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14. Slaves, Slave Owners, and Slave Dealers: Sherbro Coast and Hinterland (Carol P. MacCormack, page 271)
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15. A Nhara of the Guinea-Bissau Region: Mãe Aurélia Correia (George E. Brooks, page 295)
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16. Women Slavers of Guinea-Conakry (Bruce L. Mouser, page 320)
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17. Servitude and Worldly Success in the Palace of Dahomey (Edna G. Bay, page 340)
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Index (page 369)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 89.5 (Dec. 1984): 1370-1371 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198412%2989%3A5%3C1370%3AWASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T |
EH | 33.1 (1986): 89-90 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1801%28198624%2933%3A1%3C89%3AWASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |
CJAS | 20.1 (1986): 138-139 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-3968%281986%2920%3A1%3C138%3AWASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C |
JIH | 16.2 (1985): 367-369 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28198523%2916%3A2%3C367%3AWASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X |
IJAHS | 18.2 (1985): 331-334 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281985%2918%3A2%3C331%3AWASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 |