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Women and slavery in Africa

Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein c1997 © Claire Robertson
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  • 9780435074173 (paper)
Subject
  • African
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Maps and Figures (page vii)
  • Foreword to the Heinemann Edition (page viii)
  • Introduction
    • 1. Women's Importance in African Slave Systems (Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein, page 3)
  • Part I. Demographic and Theoretical Perspectives
    • 2. African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Herbert S. Klein, page 29)
    • 3. Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure (John Thornton, page 39)
    • 4. Female Slavery (Claude Meillassoux, page 49)
    • 5. Women in Slavery in the Western Sudan (Martin A. Klein, page 67)
    • Appendix: The Economics of the Slave Menage (page 89)
  • Part II. Production and Reproduction
    • 6. Sustaining the System: Trading Towns along the Middle Zaire (Robert Harms, page 95)
    • 7. Slavery and Reproductive Labor in Mombasa (Margaret Strobel, page 111)
    • 8. The Songhay-Zarma Female Slave: Relations of Production and Ideological Status (Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, page 130)
    • 9. Women in Slavery among the Mangbetu c. 1800-1910 (Curtis A. Klein, page 144)
    • 10. Slave Wives, Free Sisters: Bakongo Women and Slavery c. 1700-1850 (Susan Herlin Broadhead, page 160)
  • Part III. The Slave Experience: Case Histories
    • 11. The Story of Swema: Female Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century East Africa (Edward A. Alpers, page 185)
    • Appendix: Histoire d'une petite esclave enterrée vivante, ou L'Amour filial (page 200)
    • 12. Post-Proclamation Slavery in Accra: A Female Affair? (Claire C. Robertson, page 220)
    • Appendix: A Note on Anlo (Ewe) Slavery and the History of a Slave, By G. K. Nukunya (page 243)
    • 13. Bwanikwa: Consciousness and Protest among Slave Women in Central Africa, 1886-1911 (Marcia Wright, page 246)
  • Part IV. Women as Slave Owners, Users, and Traders
    • 14. Slaves, Slave Owners, and Slave Dealers: Sherbro Coast and Hinterland (Carol P. MacCormack, page 271)
    • 15. A Nhara of the Guinea-Bissau Region: Mãe Aurélia Correia (George E. Brooks, page 295)
    • 16. Women Slavers of Guinea-Conakry (Bruce L. Mouser, page 320)
    • 17. Servitude and Worldly Success in the Palace of Dahomey (Edna G. Bay, page 340)
  • Index (page 369)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
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